Bug 236742

Created attachment 152801 [details]
hp omnibook 4150 lspci

Created attachment 152802 [details]
hp omnibook 4150 dmesg

Created attachment 152803 [details]
hp omnibook 4150 lspcmcia

Created attachment 152804 [details]
grub.conf / fstab / grub for info

actually, could be similar to bug 229704, but showing up differently due to the
CD boot method ?

Downloaded 2007-04-18 08:25
efdf1ea5f2a5d97be42fc977910384505e833dfa  FC-development-i386-rescuecd.iso
sha1sum is OK. k3b verifies CD OK.

Confirm that same is occurring. Tries to mount cdrom:/images/stage2.img, but
fails: {visible messages - no vt2 shell yet - can you get one ?}
23:17:12 INFO:  trying to mount CD device scd0
23:17:16 INFO:  mntloop loop0 on /mnt/runtime as /mnt/source/images/stage2.img
fd is 20
23:17:17 DEBUG: MD5SUM -> a258a71b15afdd8a155d24d575cb3441
23:17:17 DEBUG: skipsectors = 15
23:17:17 INFO:  supported = 1
23:17:17 INFO:  transferring
ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/os/.discinfo
to a fd
--meanwhile on vt4
<7>ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
<4>Unable to load NLS charset utf8
<4>Unable to load NLS charset utf8
<7>ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
<4>Unable to identify CD-RPM format.
<4>VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev loop0.
====
on VT1 click OK to the server/path dialog again.
vt3:
23:23:01 INFO:  trying to mount CD device scd0
23:23:01 INFO:  transferring ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora
  /linux/core/development/i386/os/images/updates.img  to a fd
23:23:03 INFO:  transferring ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora
  /linux/core/development/i386/os/disc1/images/updates.img  to a fd
23:23:05 INFO:  transferring ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora
  /linux/core/development/i386/os/images/updates.img  to a fd
23:23:07 INFO:  transferring ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora
  /linux/core/development/i386/os/disc1/images/product.img  to a fd
23:23:09 INFO:  381092 kB are available
23:23:09 INFO:  transferring ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora
  /linux/core/development/i386/os/images/stage2.img  to a fd

--meanwhile vt1: Retrieving images/stage2.img for some time and then:
  Unable to retrieve the install image.  OK.
on vt3:
23:28:49 DEBUG:  copied 81604608 bytes to /tmp/ramfs/stage2.img (complete)
23:28:49 ERROR:  LOOP_SET_FD failed: Device or resource busy
23:28:49 ERROR:  Error mounting /dev/loop0 on /mnt/runtime (Device or resource busy)

vt1: back to server/path dialog.
~~~~~
My interpretation:
- the rescue CD does have the stage2.img, but is unable to mount it.
- instead of erroring appropriately {something wrong with mounting}, it moves to
try to get the stage2.img from the ftp server.
- the ftp download succeeds. (complete)
- it attempts to mount the dl'ed stage2, and fails again (same reason I guess)
- user is then in an endless {time consuming and download wasting} loop.

This is repeatable on a totally different machine: desktop, amd athlon 2600, ide
only, 3xdisks, with same rescue as comment #6.
$ cat /etc/fstab
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVolslash /                   ext3    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot1            /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVolhome /home                ext3    defaults        1 2
...
ie lvm for the / partition - I don't know if that can be labelled like /boot can ?

On both machines, the disk(s) is detected, during the rescue boot up.

Repeated with:
$ ls -l FC-development-i386-rescuecd.iso 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 103387136 Apr 19 14:21 FC-development-i386-rescuecd.iso
$ sha1sum -c SHA1SUM 
FC-development-i386-rescuecd.iso: OK
# sha1sum F*
59747fcdeba04c1db6d831aa37810e3ee00b8287  FC-development-i386-rescuecd.iso

Now the stage2 installer _is_ loaded from cdrom {ie Local Installation Media
detected}.

Noted also that rescue ISO grew more than 10MB today.
Trying to use the upgrade option, the ide hard disk is detected {/dev/sda3}, and
it looks as if install would be OK (except I have lvms without labels}.

rescue cd boots and gui loads stage2 from CD also on an Dell Poweredge 1600SC
with scsi drives. Looks good.

552905763371fee09fb6bdfa5b1f2015693b93f6  FC-development-i386-rescuecd.iso
from 2007-05-02 has no problem on this same machine {hp omnibook 4150 notebook}