[Test-Announce] Fedora 17 Alpha Test Compose 2 (TC2) Available Now!

[Brian C. Lane]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 02:00:29PM -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> On 02/09/2012 06:11 PM, Andre Robatino wrote:
> >**IMPORTANT**: There were different versions of the TC2 install and live
> >images which were overwritten prior to this announcement. I also briefly
> >posted delta ISOs for some of these old images. Please make sure that
> >the images you are using correspond to the currently posted checksum files.
> >
> >As per the Fedora 17 schedule [1], Fedora 17 Alpha Test Compose 2 (TC2)
> >is now available for testing.
> 
> I'm trying to do a koan driven vm install using the pxeboot images
> and the installer fails to boot with:
> 
> dracut: FATAL: No or empty root= argument
> dracut: Refusing to continue
> 
> Am I doing something obviously wrong?

yes ;)

The rootfs is now in LiveOS/squashfs.img so when doing something like
PXE boot or virt-install with --kernel and --initrd you also need to
provide squashfs.img somehow and point dracut to it with root=live:...

I think you can serve it up via http, but I haven't confirmed this
myself.

-- 
Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT)
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