Re: First experience with F18-ALPHA-TC1

[Brian C. Lane]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 01:19:18PM -0400, Scott Poore wrote:
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  > From: "Petr Schindler" <pschindl(a)redhat.com&gt;
>  > To: test(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>  > Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 6:42:16 AM
>  > Subject: Re: First experience with F18-ALPHA-TC1
>  > 
>  > Hi,
>  > 
>  > there is missing root parameter on boot line. If you add
>  > 'root=live:CDLABEL=Fedora\x2018-Alpha-TC1\x20x86_64' to boot line,
>  > you
>  > will be able to boot. But it won't help you much, there is a problem
>  > within anaconda, which should be fixed, so this TC is not working.
>  > 
>  
>  Petr, Or anyone that can help,
>  
>  Should the root= parameter work from a virt-install kickstart as well?  
>  
>  virt-install --connect=qemu:///system \
>  --network=bridge:virbr0 \
>  --initrd-inject=./fed.ks \
>  --extra-args="root=live:CDLABEL=Fedora\x2018-Alpha-TC1\x20x86_64 ks=file:/fed.ks
> console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200 serial" \
>  --name=f18 \
>  --disk path=/data/VirtualMachines/f18.img,format=qcow2 \
>  --ram 1024 \
>  --vcpus=1 \
>  --check-cpu \
>  --hvm \
>  --location=/data/isos/F18TC1_x86_64.iso \
>  --nographics
>  
>  I realize that won't resolve the anaconda issue that's being fixed but,
> shouldn't this get past the issue mounting the root filesystem?  Or, am I missing
> something? 
root= really shouldn't be needed, anaconda-dracut is supposed to sort
that out on media boots.

What you have above isn't booting from the iso though, it uses the
vmlinuz and initrd (that's what --location does), so you also need to
mount the iso using --cdrom

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