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

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 22:07 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2012/05/09 11:38 (GMT-000) Adam Williamson composed:
> 
> > On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 10:30 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> 
> >>  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...
> 
> eth0 except in Fedora
> 
> Less of the same:
> ...
> [10.011370] sd 2:0:0:3: Attached SCSI generic sg6 type 0
> [10.054151] sd 2:0:0:4: Attached SCSI generic sg7 type 0
> [10.097755] sd 2:0:0:1: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
> [10.121625] sd 2:0:0:3: [sde] Attached SCSI removable disk
> [10.145241] sd 2:0:0:2: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk
> [10.169615] sd 2:0:0:4: [sdf] Attached SCSI removable disk
> [34.659355] dracut Warning: Unable to process initqueue
> Dracut Warning: Unable to process initqueue
> [34.697939] dracut Warning: /dev/root does not exist
> dracut Warning: /dev/root does not exist
> Dropping to debug shell.
> dracut:/#
> 
> All those SCSIs are from an internal gazillion in one USB media reader as 
> described in attachment.

And is the network running when you get to the shell?
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