Bug 691223

As a workaround, I was able to do an NFS install after including the askmethod kernel argument.

Is this reproducible with the latest beta candidate trees?

What version of livecd-tools are you using? I just did a test with v15.6 and it works fine.

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/livecd-tools-15.6-1.fc15

I used the livecd-tools from Fedora 14:

livecd-tools-14.2-1.fc14.x86_64

In response to Comment #2, I'm not sure of how to locate the latest beta candidate trees.

I don't think this is the media, but I cannot reproduce it using the Alpha DVD on my x200 laptop. You can find the Beta TC1 image here:

http://serverbeach1.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/15-Beta.TC1/Fedora/

Could you also attach all the logs from /tmp/*log?

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anaconda.log

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program.log

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storage.log

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syslog

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X.log

What does the output of 'blkid' show if you switch to tty2 and run it?

From storage.log it looks like blkid is identifying it as an iso9660 labeled device so it is skipping it. I saw this problem once with one of my USB drives after I had dd'd an iso to it -- it kept thinking it was an iso9660 even after using --format --reset-mbr on it. I used wipefs on it and dd'd zeros to the first 100M just for good measure before it would start working again.

Here's the output of the blkid command:

/dev/sda1: LABEL="usbdisk" UUID="2C76-0C04" TYPE="vfat" 
/dev/sdc1: UUID="9a5b6a6d-4161-4758-af94-90f8dcd8ecad" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sdc2: UUID="f91c85d0-b4b4-4c72-9999-a38d73572286" TYPE="swap" 
/dev/sdc3: UUID="8728e20a-29ba-4064-afed-2c09036182ec" TYPE="ext4" 


When I was getting ready to install, I looked at the page titled "How to create and use Live USB" on the Fedora Wiki.  Looking at it again, I see that I didn't follow the instructions correctly for making the USB installer from the DVD.  I ran live-cd-iso-to-disk on the DVD iso file instead of the boot.iso file.

I'll try the instructions again and make sure that they work.

v14.2 should work on the dvd iso or on the boot.iso

I'd try wiping the USB stick using wipefs and dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=100 of=/dev/XXX then run livecd-iso-to-disk with --format --reset-mbr just to make sure any previous formatting is gone.

I have the same problem with Fedora 15 beta install DVD image using livecd-iso-to-disk:

The installation source given by device [UUID=84CE-8954] could not be found. 
Please check your parameters and try again.

liveusb-creator, unetbootin and dd all seem to have their own problems too, e.g. the BIOS not realizing the USB flash drive has an OS on it, or the bootloader not being able to load the vmlinuz image, IIRC -- I don't remember the specifics of which method fails which way exactly, but livecd-iso-to-disk is the only method that actually starts anaconda -- I just can't get past the above error message.

blkid does correctly give /dev/sdf1 as UUID="84CE-8954".

Looks like my USB drive is also being recognized as Iso9660FS in storage.log.

I tried livecd-iso-to-disk with --format --reset-mbr and it did not fix the problem for me.

Could this be a BIOS-specific bug, since none of the other methods (unetbootin etc.) work either?

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My own anaconda.log

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dmesg output

Full blkid output:

/dev/sdf1: LABEL="OCZ8" UUID="84CE-A954" TYPE="vfat" 

I think I will try the askmethod option suggested above, because I have to get this machine up and running and have already spent too many hours on this!

(In reply to comment #19)
> Full blkid output:
> 
> /dev/sdf1: LABEL="OCZ8" UUID="84CE-A954" TYPE="vfat" 
> 
> I think I will try the askmethod option suggested above, because I have to get
> this machine up and running and have already spent too many hours on this!

Have you tried using dd or wipefs on the USB drive? One or both of those solved it for me the one time I've seen this here.

(In reply to comment #20)
> Have you tried using dd or wipefs on the USB drive? One or both of those solved
> it for me the one time I've seen this here.

Yes, I tried every method listed in the "Fedora Live USB" wiki page, including the dd method, as described in comment 15 -- I couldn't get a single one of them to work.  I didn't try wipefs however.

I cannot even use livecd-iso-to-disk in Fedora 13 to do a USB install, due to the error:

   Fedora-15-i386-DVD.iso does not appear to be a Live image or DVD installer.

Using livecd-tools-033-3.fc13.i686 from updates repo. So I am unable to install Fedora 15.

(In reply to comment #22)
> I cannot even use livecd-iso-to-disk in Fedora 13 to do a USB install, due to
> the error:
> 
>    Fedora-15-i386-DVD.iso does not appear to be a Live image or DVD installer.
> 
> Using livecd-tools-033-3.fc13.i686 from updates repo. So I am unable to install
> Fedora 15.

Please refrain from commenting on bugs unless you have something to add. Your problem is not related to this bug.

(In reply to comment #23)
> (In reply to comment #22)
> > I cannot even use livecd-iso-to-disk in Fedora 13 to do a USB install, due to
> > the error:
> > 
> >    Fedora-15-i386-DVD.iso does not appear to be a Live image or DVD installer.
> > 
> > Using livecd-tools-033-3.fc13.i686 from updates repo. So I am unable to install
> > Fedora 15.
> 
> Please refrain from commenting on bugs unless you have something to add. Your
> problem is not related to this bug.

Sorry, I should have been more clear.

You wrote in C3 that you could not use v15.6 to reproduce the bug. But of course the majority of user won't use livecd-tools for FC15 to install FC15 at this point, where most are upgrading. The OP used livecd-tools for FC14, I used for FC13.

So what I tried to say is to look at older livecd-tools, not just the FC15.

Sorry again,
L.

Actually, they have been updated. But it looks like the f13 version hasn't made it out of testing for lack of karma -

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/livecd-tools-13.2-1.fc13

It should install f15 just fine.

I have the same prolem with livecd-tools-15.7-1.fc15.x86_64 and CentOS-6.0-x86_64-bin-DVD {1,2}.iso. According to blkid all media are recognized as ext4.

I'll try wipefs and dd'ing zeros.

I re-installed F15 on my netbook today.  My first try got the same error.  Then, I tried the instructions in Comment #14 and the error went away.  I was able to complete the installation.

When running blkid to check the media make sure you do it as root. blkid as a user tries to cache things and the results are not always accurate in my experience.