install to hard disk doesn't start

[Adam Williamson]

On Sun, 2011-10-09 at 16:40 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 13:10:27 -0700,
>   Per Bothner <per at bothner.com> wrote:
> > I grabbed Fedora-16-Beta-i686-Live-Desktot, burned it, and booted it.
> > The live desktop comes up, I can start Terminal, and I can start Firefox.
> > But when I try to start Install to hard drive, I see the spinning
> > cursor for about 12 seconds and then nothing.  How do I start Install
> > from the command line?  (Perhaps that will give me more feedback.)
> > Is there some place install writes out log messages?
> 
> Well you can start liveinst from the command line, but I think you need
> X running for it to actually be usable.

well, yeah - run it from GNOME terminal.

My guess would be that you're hitting the udevadm settle timeout bug,
which causes liveinst never to manage to complete launch...
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