[Test-Announce] Fedora 17 Alpha Test Compose 2 (TC2) Available Now!

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 16:38 -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> On 02/10/2012 04:19 PM, Brian C. Lane wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 02:00:29PM -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> >> On 02/09/2012 06:11 PM, Andre Robatino wrote:
> >>> **IMPORTANT**: There were different versions of the TC2 install and live
> >>> images which were overwritten prior to this announcement. I also briefly
> >>> posted delta ISOs for some of these old images. Please make sure that
> >>> the images you are using correspond to the currently posted checksum files.
> >>>
> >>> As per the Fedora 17 schedule [1], Fedora 17 Alpha Test Compose 2 (TC2)
> >>> is now available for testing.
> >>
> >> I'm trying to do a koan driven vm install using the pxeboot images
> >> and the installer fails to boot with:
> >>
> >> dracut: FATAL: No or empty root= argument
> >> dracut: Refusing to continue
> >>
> >> Am I doing something obviously wrong?
> >
> > yes ;)
> >
> > The rootfs is now in LiveOS/squashfs.img so when doing something like
> > PXE boot or virt-install with --kernel and --initrd you also need to
> > provide squashfs.img somehow and point dracut to it with root=live:...
> >
> > I think you can serve it up via http, but I haven't confirmed this
> > myself.
> 
> So, this is something koan is going to have to be taught then?  If so I'll 
> file a bug.

Sounds like it. You may want to refer to
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=785815 , which has some
discussion.
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