Bug 673908

Summary: askmethod install from USB drive cannot find installation media
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: John Reiser <jreiser>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: anaconda-maint-list, AppelonD, jonathan, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Description John Reiser 2011-01-31 02:22:13 UTC 
Created attachment 476103 [details]
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Description of problem: An "askmethod" install which specifies a source partition on USB media, cannot find the installation source.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
anaconda-15.18


How reproducible: every time


Steps to Reproduce:
1. compose install DVD from rawhide of 2011-01-30 (Sunday)
2. Create USB media using recipe "How to Make a bootable USB Drive to Install Fedora instead of using a physical DVD" from https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB
3. boot with additional kernel parameter " askmethod"
4. Choose "Local harddrive", select the partition on USB media, and specify location "/" [root directory]
  
Actual results: dialog box "Unknown device": The installation source given by device ['sde1'] could not be found.  Please check your parameters and try again.


Expected results: successful install


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Comment 1 John Reiser 2011-01-31 02:23:18 UTC 
Created attachment 476104 [details]
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Comment 2 John Reiser 2011-01-31 02:24:25 UTC 
Created attachment 476105 [details]
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Comment 3 John Reiser 2011-01-31 02:35:05 UTC 
The machine runs other instances of Fedora 6 through 15 (rawhide) just fine, but is old enough [6 years] that its BIOS cannot boot from USB.  So I copied vmlinuz and initrd0.img from syslinux to a partition on a harddrive, and specified those in a special GRUB stanza with kernel command line:
  root=live:CDLABEL=<the_label_of_the_USB_device> rootfstype=auto liveimg rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM askmethod
which I adapted from the boot lines that appear on nightly liveCDs at http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/desktop/
Comment 4 Dennis Appelon Nielsen 2011-08-07 21:35:05 UTC 
Is this still an issue with anaconda-15-30 ?
Comment 5 John Reiser 2011-08-08 00:17:28 UTC 
It works correctly with anaconda-15.31, which was the version in the final release of Fedora 15.
Comment 6 Dennis Appelon Nielsen 2011-08-08 17:57:44 UTC 
I consider this bug closed then