On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Will Woods wrote: > Hi! First, let me say "Thanks!" for trying out one of the test releases. > We really appreciate the help. You might want to check out the FC6t2 > test status page - that's the main place we're trying to track what > works and what doesn't. > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/FC6Test2TreeTesting > Yes, I should have looked at that first. > > On Sun, 2006-08-13 at 21:51 +0100, bloch@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Owing to the problem listed in bug 202139, I am unable to boot my laptop > > with the current test2 installation. I've been trying to use rescue > > mode to install a non-Xen kernel. > > Ick. I'll add 202139 to the list. > > > The first problem I noticed was that bringing up a network interface did > > not work - /usr/bin/ifconfig was not found. > > This is a known bug (#201372). It's already fixed in rawhide, so this > will be gone in Test3. > > > The second problem was that installing the kernel once chrooted into the > > installed system did not work - there was a complaint about not being > > able to find /mnt/sysimage/var/lib/rpm/Basenames, even though that file > > is present. > > Weird. Have you filed a bug about this? I'll investigate it either way > but I'd like to have a bug number to track this problem. > Filed now as 202588. > > The third problem was that I tried to get around this by installing the > > kernel manually. When I tried using mkinitrd, there was an error, > > complaining that /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions was not found. I didn't > > really expect mkinitrd to work, but I doubt it should have this error. > > Was the file present? Are you sure the chroot was OK? > It's quite possible the whole chroot wasn't working properly, which would partially explain the other problem. Unfortunately, I had to re-install as the machine couldn't boot at all in that state. However, I'll see if I can install RPMs using the rawhide anaconda. Adam -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list