F17: fatal errors on install

Gerry Reno greno at verizon.net
Mon Jun 4 22:23:55 UTC 2012


On 06/04/2012 03:19 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 15:06:46 -0400
> Gerry Reno <greno at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> Today tried installing F17 x86_64 from DVD and get these errors:
>>
>>     ERROR: could not insert 'floppy': No such device
>>     Loading Fedora 17 x86_64 installer...
>>
>>     dracut Warning: Unable to process initqueue
>>     dracut Warning: /dev/disk/by-label/Fedorax2017x20x86_64 does not
>> exist dracut Warning: /dev/mapper/live-rw does not exist
>>
>>     Dropping to debug shell.
>>
>>     dracut:/#
>>
>>
>> This laptop does not have a 'floppy' device.
>>
>> Should installing F17 not be as simple as inserting DVD into drive
>> and rebooting?
>>
>> Is there a workaround to get F17 installed from DVD?
> Please help debug this issue at: 
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=827644
>
> kevin
>
>
Burned another DVD and booting it got some other errors (rpcbind?) but it runs the installer at least.

I'm doing custom partitioning and I selected to encrypt the LVM physical volume (LUKS) but now it is also asking about
encrypting the filesystem for logical volume.

Do I need both of these?








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