Bug 239042

Summary:	anaconda not attempting to load any drivers before trying to install
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Doug Chapman <dchapman>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide	Keywords:	Regression
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Hardware:	ia64
OS:	Linux
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Description Doug Chapman 2007-05-04 16:08:29 UTC

Description of problem:
I booted the anaconda installer over the network on a couple of my ia64 systems.
 Once /sbin/loader starts I immediatly get an error saying it cannot download
the kickstart file.  I do not see it attempting to load any device drivers.

If I try booting with no boot arguments (i.e. try manual install instead of
kickstart) after I select "NFS directory" for the install source it asks me to
select a driver (similar to what would be seen if I had booted with nostorage).


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rawhide-20070501
anaconda-11.2.0.57-1

How reproducible:
100% on 2 different machines

Steps to Reproduce:
1. network install of rawhide
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Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:

Comment 1 Doug Chapman 2007-05-04 16:12:34 UTC

one more interesting bit of info...

I went to the driver selection screen and selected the e1000 driver for my
system.  It does not load the driver and comes back with this error:

Unable to find any devices of the type
needed for this installation type.

I tried this on another one of my systems that has e100 and tg3 drivers. 
Selecting those drivers has the same result.

Comment 2 Prarit Bhargava 2007-05-04 16:20:37 UTC

Doug, does this happen only on ia64?

P.

Comment 3 Doug Chapman 2007-05-04 18:20:33 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> Doug, does this happen only on ia64?
> 
> P.

It appears to be either ia64 specific or at least specific to the rx4640/rx2600
low end HP systems.  I tried my dl585 with the i386 install (appears that x86_64
did not get completely built) and that worked OK.

Comment 4 Jeremy Katz 2007-05-05 02:02:23 UTC

Are you sure you're using a properly matched kernel/initrd pair?  Since if not,
the module versions won't match and modules won't load properly

Comment 5 Doug Chapman 2007-05-07 15:42:44 UTC

It appears all of the rawhide trees are gone from bigpapi so I cannot try again
to see if I was somehow using a mismatched kernel/initrd.  I will leave this as
needinfo and retest when another tree is built.

Comment 6 Doug Chapman 2007-05-07 15:52:44 UTC

setting back to needinfo so I don't forget this one.

Comment 7 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-06-12 03:51:32 UTC

requested by Jams Antill

Comment 8 Doug Chapman 2007-09-18 19:35:49 UTC

no longer seeing this in F8-test 1.