Re: First experience with F18-ALPHA-TC1

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On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 01:19:18PM -0400, Scott Poore wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Petr Schindler" <pschindl@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 6:42:16 AM
> > Subject: Re: First experience with F18-ALPHA-TC1
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > there is missing root parameter on boot line. If you add
> > 'root=live:CDLABEL=Fedora\x2018-Alpha-TC1\x20x86_64' to boot line,
> > you
> > will be able to boot. But it won't help you much, there is a problem
> > within anaconda, which should be fixed, so this TC is not working.
> > 
> 
> Petr, Or anyone that can help,
> 
> Should the root= parameter work from a virt-install kickstart as well?  
> 
> virt-install --connect=qemu:///system \
> --network=bridge:virbr0 \
> --initrd-inject=./fed.ks \
> --extra-args="root=live:CDLABEL=Fedora\x2018-Alpha-TC1\x20x86_64 ks=file:/fed.ks console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200 serial" \
> --name=f18 \
> --disk path=/data/VirtualMachines/f18.img,format=qcow2 \
> --ram 1024 \
> --vcpus=1 \
> --check-cpu \
> --hvm \
> --location=/data/isos/F18TC1_x86_64.iso \
> --nographics
> 
> I realize that won't resolve the anaconda issue that's being fixed but, shouldn't this get past the issue mounting the root filesystem?  Or, am I missing something?

root= really shouldn't be needed, anaconda-dracut is supposed to sort
that out on media boots.

What you have above isn't booting from the iso though, it uses the
vmlinuz and initrd (that's what --location does), so you also need to
mount the iso using --cdrom

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