I tried to do a hard drive install of f10beta but could not get it to work. It's possible I'm doing something stupid though. Here's what I tried:
I always have problems with burning CDs and DVDs, so I don't bother even trying anymore... since I'm doing a hard drive install and have a working grub on my hard drive, I have just added an "install f10" option to grub. I did this by loopback mounting the DVD image and copying isolinux/initrd.img and isolinux/vmlinuz to /boot. Then I modified grub to point to those files:
title Fedora 10 Install
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz.install ro root=UUID=b65d5932-9eb3-4013-5d48-7e2420b78253 askmethod initrd /boot/initrd.img
It seems like it's working, but then when I tell it to do a hard drive install and where the install image directory is, it says it can't find it. I hit Alt-F[2-7] and found a message implying it was looking for a file named install.img in the install image directory. But I'm sure I've never put a file named install.img in that directory. Do I need to rename Fedora-10-Beta-i386-DVD.iso to install.img? With older releases, hard drive installs automagically found the iso file.
So am I doing something wrong or are hard drive installs broken?
Thanks,
David
It seems like it's working, but then when I tell it to do a hard drive install and where the install image directory is, it says it can't find it. I hit Alt-F[2-7] and found a message implying it was looking for a file named install.img in the install image directory. But I'm sure I've never put a file named install.img in that directory. Do I need to rename Fedora-10-Beta-i386-DVD.iso to install.img? With older releases, hard drive installs automagically found the iso file.
No, it doesn't need to be renamed. What you need to do is either:
(1) Grab the install.img from within the ISO image or from the download site, and place it into an images/ directory at the same level as your ISO images; or
(2) Boot from the boot.iso.
This is a change from F9, but it is described in the anaconda documentation at:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Options
(I've also just updated that documentation to change stage2.img -> install.img, which was a fairly recent change in anaconda).
- Chris
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 7:53 AM, Chris Lumens clumens@redhat.com wrote:
It seems like it's working, but then when I tell it to do a hard drive install and where the install image directory is, it says it can't find
it.
I hit Alt-F[2-7] and found a message implying it was looking for a file named install.img in the install image directory. But I'm sure I've never put a file named install.img in that directory. Do I need to rename Fedora-10-Beta-i386-DVD.iso to install.img? With older releases, hard drive installs automagically found the iso file.
From https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464836:
No, it doesn't need to be renamed. What you need to do is either:
(1) Grab the install.img from within the ISO image or from the download site, and place it into an images/ directory at the same level as your ISO images; or
Thanks for the quick response.
I tried this and changed from askmethod to repo=hd:sda7/f10 .
Now I get a segfault.
loader received SIGSEGV! Backtrace: /sbin/loader (loader SegvHandler+0xa0) [0x804fd20] [0x132400] /lib/libc.so.6(strlen+0xb) ...
I tried this and changed from askmethod to repo=hd:sda7/f10 .
Now I get a segfault.
loader received SIGSEGV! Backtrace: /sbin/loader (loader SegvHandler+0xa0) [0x804fd20] [0x132400] /lib/libc.so.6(strlen+0xb)
Can you attach the full thing, or at least the next couple lines? We call strlen a lot of places in the loader.
- Chris
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Chris Lumens clumens@redhat.com wrote:
I tried this and changed from askmethod to repo=hd:sda7/f10 .
Now I get a segfault.
loader received SIGSEGV! Backtrace: /sbin/loader (loader SegvHandler+0xa0) [0x804fd20] [0x132400] /lib/libc.so.6(strlen+0xb)
Can you attach the full thing, or at least the next couple lines? We call strlen a lot of places in the loader.
loader 804fd20 132400 libc 41320b libc 3debb6 libc 498f81 loader 80538c4 loader 805392f loader 805f7ad loader 8051153 libc 3b16e5 loader 804d981
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 10:53:49AM -0400, Chris Lumens wrote:
It seems like it's working, but then when I tell it to do a hard drive install and where the install image directory is, it says it can't find it. I hit Alt-F[2-7] and found a message implying it was looking for a file named install.img in the install image directory. But I'm sure I've never put a file named install.img in that directory. Do I need to rename Fedora-10-Beta-i386-DVD.iso to install.img? With older releases, hard drive installs automagically found the iso file.
No, it doesn't need to be renamed. What you need to do is either:
(1) Grab the install.img from within the ISO image or from the download site, and place it into an images/ directory at the same level as your ISO images; or
(2) Boot from the boot.iso.
This is a change from F9, but it is described in the anaconda documentation at:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Options
(I've also just updated that documentation to change stage2.img -> install.img, which was a fairly recent change in anaconda).
This should also go in the Release Notes beat: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Installer
I've also filed a bug for the Installation Guide: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465195