F17 ALpha TC2

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:47:46 -0800, BCL (Brian) wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 02:38:22PM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 05:01:27 -0500 (EST), KP (Kamil) wrote:
> > 
> > > > PXEBOOT fails on a Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3 and on a NFORCEE6M-A
> > > > with a kernel panic about "no or empty root".
> > > 
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=785815
> > 
> > Ordinary GRUB2 boot of the DVD image's vmlinuz+initrd also fails like
> > that. I've tried to boot with an appropriate repo= parameter as with
> > Fedora 16 and older, but that also fails.
> 
> You need to tell dracut where to find the root filesystem, copy the
> root=live:... from the isolinux.cfg

Really? CDLABEL=...?

    linux (hd0,8)/17/64/vmlinuz root=live:CDLABEL=Fedora\x2017-Alpha\x20x86_64 repo=hd:/dev/sda8:/17/64
    initrd (hd0,8)/17/64/initrd.img
    boot

It fails differently. First LUKS passphrase prompts, then 20 seconds
nothing, then LVM scan, then 30 seconds nothing, then Dracut fails to find
that thing.

Note, I don't burn the image onto DVD. I keep the image on local hdd and
want to boot that one.

The live:http://… URL given in bug 785815 has worked. Anaconda refused
to accept my LUKS passphrases, however. Tried primary and alternative
passphrases. No error. Nothing. The prompt returned endlessly.