On 08/13/2015 11:27 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 08/13/2015 07:55 PM, dwoody5654 wrote:
The error that comes up is that /dev/root can not be found. So I get a
better understanding of the problem, exactly what is /dev/root supposed
to be? The target drive to install to, the drive that is doing the
installing or something else?
It's the root filesystem that you are booting. Normally, the
initramfs contains just enough kernel modules and executables to bring
up the root filesystem and then switch to it. I'm not quite clear
about what you're trying to do, but normally for a net install there
is a stage2 image that should be the root filesystem containing
anaconda and all the other software required to do the install.
I have a couple of friends that I am the admin for their computers. They
live in another city. I have always done a remote install to upgrade
from one version of Fedora to another.
I am testing F23.
NOTE: this is being done on a VirtualBox.
The grub.cfg menu entry that I have been using is as follows:
menuentry 'Remote Install' {
set root='hd0,msdos1'
echo 'Loading Linux'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-remote
repo=hd:sda3:/Fedora-Server-netinst-i386-23_Alpha.iso selinux=0
ks.device=enp0s30 ks=hd:sda3:/ks.cfg --noip6 inst.sshd ramdisk_size=8192
panic=30
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initrd-remote.img
}
Where the vmlinuz and initrd files were copied from the net install iso.
During the boot process it now finds the iso file. I initially had an
error in the menu entry.
When it tries to mount the iso the error line is:
mount: /run/install/isodir/Fedora-Server-netinst-i386-23_Alpha failed to
setup loop device: no such file or directory.
And then displays the error /dev/root does not exist.
Thanks,
David
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