Bug 470418
| Summary: | Fedora 10 Preview and Final Release install fails from a USB hard disk | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Dave Ludlow <dave> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 10 | CC: | anaconda-maint-list, jpm.gelinat, obblada, poelstra, tomathivanan |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2009-04-08 19:59:34 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Dave Ludlow
2008-11-07 02:51:24 UTC
Having both the ISO and the exploded contents in the same directory is probably going to lead to some really weird results. Can you attach /tmp/anaconda.log from your installation attempt to this bug report so I can see what might be going wrong? I experienced the same problem: I'm using the Fedora-10 Preview-DVD i386 iso. This image is in my exteral usb hard drive (fat 32). First, i've just mounted the iso, copied /isolinux on the /boot/ of my computer, and modified grub. I've booted on the install from grub, choosed "hard drive", the correct drive and enter the correct path (/perso/fedora/install) to the iso image. The program can't find the image... but going back I can see it's looking for /perso/fedora/images.install.img. So I've copied the iso content on my hard drive, in /perso/fedora/install. Reboot, instal form hard drive and I gave the path /perso/fedora/install. Anaconda start, but after choosing hard drive and partition for installation, anaconda gave me an the same error as Dave: The installer has tried to mount image #1, but cannot find it on the hard drive. I think anaconda is configured for iso CD and not iso DVD... (perhaps?) I too have the same problem, with the Preview and today with F10 itself.... and not even on USB. I copy Fedora-10-x86_64-DVD.iso to a partition, boot to anaconda, and point it to a hard drive install from that partition. It can't find squat. This works with literally every Fedora up until F10 :-( There's been a slight modification to how HDISO installs work. From http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f10/en_US/sn-installing-from-harddrive.html: "In addition the install.img file from within the ISO files must be copied to a directory named images." The images/ directory must be at the same level as your ISO image. Note that you don't have to do this if you're booting with a boot.iso. Live image works on usb pen, but I would really like to use the DVD.iso. I too have a problem with Fedora 10 DVD.iso (both final and preview) on my usb pen. I used the same method that works with Fedora 9, but I get this message: "Device /dev/sdb2 does not appear to contain an installation image." The method (that works like a charm with Fedora 9!): Make to fat32 partitions on usb pen.One small for boot.iso and one large for DVD.iso. Boot flag on the small partition. Download DVD.iso. Mount DVD.iso. Copy boot.iso from mounted DVD.iso, and then as root change directory to where the boot.iso is located and perform livecd-to-disk: #livecd-to-disk boot.iso /dev/sdb1 Finally I copy DVD.iso to /dev/sdb2 and reboot. Tried it this morning with Fedora 9 (and many other times): Success! Tried it today with Fedora 10 and earlier with some of the preview versions: Failiure! Is there a simple method like this for Fedora 10? Or could it be that ANACONDA is just not ready for this yet? SORRY. (Of course I meant livecd-iso-to-disk, not livecd-to-disk. ) I have noticed that only ONE partition is needed on the usb pen for Fedora 10 DVD.iso, and that is something new from Fedora 9. You also have to make a directory with the name 'images' and copy 'install.img' and to it , and copy DVD.iso to usb pen, after livecd-iso-to-disk with the 'boot.iso'. Tested it, and it works great! I tried 15hrs but i am not getting resolved for this bug. I copied Fedora-10-x86_64-DVD.iso and created the USB bootable disk, and i tried with DVD disc also, i used 8GB pendrive also. Problem: 1.lot of different errors each time installing the OS. 2.I tried with USB Bootable media... it always needs image#1 where can i load this. Please anyone can tell me how to solve this problem Comment #4 was the clue that made it work for me. The ISO file I use is the standard DVD iso image. Here is the relevant directory structure on my USB hard drive: fedora/10/x86_64/iso/Fedora-10-x86_64-DVD.iso fedora/10/x86_64/iso/images/install.img fedora/10/x86_64/os/isolinux/initrd.img fedora/10/x86_64/os/isolinux/vmlinuz The files in 'images' and 'isolinux' are copied from the .iso file itself. Here is the grub config I use on my bootable USB hard drive: title Fedora 10 x86_64 Install kernel /fedora/10/x86_64/os/isolinux/vmlinuz initrd /fedora/10/x86_64/os/isolinux/initrd.img I tell the installer that my files are in /fedora/10/x86_64/iso. The basic difference between F10 and <=F9 is that the images directory is put with the .iso file. I've done this with standard i386, x86_64, and Fedora Unity x86_64 re-spin without issue; in fact, my primary install method is via USB hard drive. As far as I'm concerned, this bug is FIXED and can be closed. There was definitely another bug about this present in F10, and F11 alpha but it has since been tracked down. I believe hard drive installs should be working fine for the final release of F11. Thanks for your testing. |