no /dev/root when doing remote install using the netinstall iso...

Samuel Sieb samuel at sieb.net
Fri Aug 14 04:27:52 UTC 2015


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.


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