On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 16:23 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 09:37:15 -0400, James wrote: > > > > >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627789 > > > >> > > > >> Brian notes in that report - "Hit ok and a blank repe edit dialog is > > > >> shown. Hit cancel and it then finds the correct repositories and > > > >> proceeds with the install." > > > >> > > > >> so you could try that. > > > > > > > > That is how I ended up with a broken "transparent" http install from > > > > a stale mirror, getting the old non-working firstboot package. The > > > > "Installation Repo" will be missing due to the error and clicking > > > > Cancel. > > > > I have completed several hard drive ISO (HDISO) installations of > > F-14-Beta without error. I'd like to understand more about the setup > > used to ensure our test case [1], and the steps you are following, are > > in sync. > > > > When you say hard drive install, you are referring to the process of > > copying the DVD ISO (or CD ISO) images to a hard disk partition, as > > detailed in the installation guide sections below? > > > > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Installation_Guide/ch04s07.html > > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Installation_Guide/s1-begininstall-hd-x86.html > > > > Yes. > > On the test machine, partition sda5 contains an ext3 fs and several subdirs > to hold the ISO images for various distributions. Ah, that could be part of the problem. Will need to dig a bit more though. > Fedora 14 Beta RC3 i386 > DVD ISO was put into /14 and a copy of the 'images' directory placed at > /14/images: > > # mount /dev/sda5 mnt/1 -o ro > ll mnt/1/14 > umount mnt/1 > total 3569928 > -rw-rw-r--. 1 root root 726 Sep 21 18:56 Fedora-14-Beta-i386-CHECKSUM > -rw-rw-r--. 1 root root 3616593920 Sep 21 21:45 Fedora-14-Beta-i386-DVD.iso > drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Sep 21 22:15 images > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 31546058 Sep 21 05:01 initrd.img > drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Sep 23 18:06 mnt > -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 3868064 Sep 21 05:01 vmlinuz Thanks, can you also show me (or upload to the bugzilla) ... # mount/dev/sda5 /media # find /media -type f > Files vmlinuz and initrd.img are copied from the 'isolinux' dir and > are booted with GRUB in MBR. Great, that's a much faster way to boot the installer. I've not recently used the isolinux/initrd.img, I typically use images/pxeboot/initrd.img. Mental note for the future, we may need a test to ensure these files are the *same* (or similar enough). They aren't at the moment, but only because the .buildstamp in each initrd.img differs. I'm not sure why, would need to consult release engineering. Summary, using isolinux/{vmlinuz,initrd.img} shouldn't change the outcome of this test. > After choosing hard-disk as installation > source, I point Anaconda at /dev/sda5 and path /14, and it happily > loads and starts the graphical installer. > > This has worked fine with Fedora 13 (and various older dist releases). I think the key variables here are the installer and the contents of the partition /dev/sda5 used. Thanks, James
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