Question about asking for help

[Dan Horák]

Robert Knight píše v Út 29. 01. 2013 v 06:19 -0500: 
> On 1/27/2013 5:11 PM, Dan Horák wrote:
> > Robert Knight píše v Ne 27. 01. 2013 v 16:47 -0500:
> >
> > There is a little bug [1] in dracut that prevents setting up a CTC
> > interface, but I have a solution for it. I've fixed the dracut file and
> > repackaged the initrd.img file containing the kernel's initramfs. Please
> > see [2] in a while for the new initrd.img and also sample generic.prm.
> That new initramfs did fix the CTC networking problem.  Thank you. And 
> thanks for the generic.prm.  It helped as well.
> > Fedora 14 (and all < 17) used the old way for setting up the hardware,
> > and I know CTC works with Fedora 16. Fedora 17 and newer uses dracut for
> > setting up the hw and there can still be bugs.
> >
> > And most likely there is a bug in parted making it impossible to use FBA
> > disk, but ECKD should work.
> Unfortunately, there are still challenges with the new anaconda.
> 
> The first was that the VNC panel says that it's preparing with the 
> little spinning circle forever.  Logging into the installation, I can 
> see that it is actually installing and that it has even finished.  
> However, the GUI panel never changed.

yeah, that's something I also observed, but only when running in
Hercules, not on real iron. So I switched to using kickstarts
(unattended installation), which also saves the cycles otherwise spent
for doing GUI. I'll upload my files as samples.

> The second was that it only put one partition on my (ECKD) DASD and it 
> was an LVM container, so Hercules sat there spinning with no message but 
> not booting.  When I compared the new partitioning to the working Fedora 
> 14 one, I reinstalled and specified standard partitioning.  This 
> produced three (/boot, swap and /) but this will not come up, either.  
> It does boot, which is an advance, but stop after it has activated the 
> network.

can you post the logs somewhere?


Dan