obsolete http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda_Boot_Options

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 10:30 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 13:28 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> > On 2012/05/09 13:22 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed:
> > 
> > > Dracut Warning: /dev/root does not exist
> > > Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
> > > Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 3.3.4-3.fc17.i686 #1
> > > Call Trace:
> > > [<c091ffc8>] ? printk+0x2d/0x2f
> > > [<c091fea4>] panic+0x81/0x178
> > > [<c043b51f>] do_exit+0x7ff/0x800
> > > [<c043b7b4>] do_group_exit+0x34/0xa0
> > > [<c0449cd3>] ? sys_rt_sigprocmask+0x73/0x90
> > > [<c043b838>] sys_exit_group+0x18/0x20
> > > [<c0927e64>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
> > 
> > Is this an unsupported CPU problem?
> 
> No, I highly doubt it. I'm pretty sure it's just that networking isn't
> coming up right. It may well simply be an anaconda bug; I don't know if
> we've actually tested the static IP stuff very hard since noloader.

So, wwoods tells me the dracut syntax is the 'shiny new' way. The
anaconda syntax should work, but gets translated into the dracut syntax
and 'there may be problems there'. So, apparently, you should try
something like this:

kernel (hd0,6)/f17inst/vmlinuz repo=http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/fedora/development/17/i386/os ip=192.168.1.2::192.168.1.1:255.255.255.0::eth0:none nameserver=192.168.1.1 rd.luks=0 rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 splash=verbose noipv6 selinux=0 xdriver=radeon resolution=1152x864 vga=794 nodmraid nofirewire

where eth0 is your interface (may well be em1 or something). Can you try
that? If that works but the anaconda params don't, we have an anaconda
bug...
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