[fedora-arm] Fwd: Help!Failed to find a suitable stage1 device when using PXE installation.

[Brooks Hu]

Thank David, finally I found the root cause. I hada misconfigured
grub.conf, thus the kickstart file couldn't be rightly located. Now it
works as expected.

Brooks



On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> wrote:

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> That is a very odd kickstart and is missing sections you need like a
> location for the install tree.
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart has all the kickstart
> options I suggest you look at them. you may be best off doing a manual
> install and then tweaking the resulting kickstart for your use.
>
> Dennis
>
> On Sun, 28 Dec 2014 08:19:57 +0800
> Brooks Hu <brooks.hu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: *Brooks Hu* <brooks.hu at gmail.com>
> > Date: Friday, December 26, 2014
> > Subject: Help!Failed to find a suitable stage1 device when using PXE
> > installation.
> > To: arm at lists.fedoraproject.org
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am trying automatic PXE installation (Fedora 21 for AARCH64) on my
> > Mustang board, but looks like kickstart can't work.
> >
> > Here comes the detail:
> >
> > Starting installer, one moment...
> > find_file: stat /proc/device-tree/chosen/bootpath, No such file or
> > directory anaconda 21.48.21-1 for Fedora-Server 21 started.
> >  * installation log files are stored in /tmp during the installation
> >  * shell is available on TTY2
> >  * when reporting a bug add logs from /tmp as separate text/plain
> > attachments
> > 10:26:29 Not asking for VNC because of an automated install
> > Starting automated install......
> > Generating updated storage configuration
> > storage configuration failed: failed to find a suitable stage1 device
> >
> ================================================================================
> > Installation
> >
> >  1) [x] Language settings                 2) [!] Timezone settings
> >         (English (United States))                (Timezone is not
> > set.) 3) [x] Installation source               4) [!] Software
> > selection (ftp://192.168.1.1/F21/)                 (Nothing selected)
> >  5) [!] Installation Destination          6) [x] Network configuration
> >         (No disks selected)                      (Wired (eth0)
> > connected) 7) [!] Root password                     8) [!] User
> > creation (Password is not set.)                   (No user will be
> > created) Not enough space in filesystems for the current software
> > selection. An additional 2861.02 MiB is needed.
> >   Please make your choice from above ['q' to quit | 'b' to begin
> > installation |
> >
> > UEFI version is 1.1.0-rh-0.13
> >
> > Here comes the kick start config file(I modified based on a sample
> > from certain website):
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > text
> > install
> > lang en_US.UTF-8
> > keyboard us
> > part efi --fstype=efi --size=300 --ondisk=sda
> > part /boot --fstype=ext4 --size=512 --ondisk=sda
> > part / --fstype=ext4 --size=20096 --ondisk=sda
> > part /vz --fstype=ext4 --size=40768 --ondisk=sda
> > part swap --size=4000
> > bootloader --location=partition --ondisk=sda
> > network --bootproto dhcp
> > rootpw root
> > auth --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512
> > timezone --utc America/New_York
> > reboot
> > vznetcfg --net=virt_network1:eth0
> > vztturlmap $FS_SERVER http://myrepository.com
> > nosfxtemplate
> > %eztmplates --cache
> > centos-6-x86_64
> > centos-6-x86
> > mailman-centos-6-x86_64
> > mailman-centos-6-x86
> >
> > %packages
> > @base
> > @core
> > @vz
> > @ps
> > %end
> >
> > I have tried all kinds of option combination, also deleted all the
> > partitions, but it still can't work. Any suggestions/comments are
> > welcomed!
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Brooks
>
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