Bug 810207

Description of problem:
Receive "dracut Warning: no suitable images" error

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


How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install preupgrade via yum
2. Run preupgrade
3. Check box to show alpha/beta releases
4. Select Fedora 17 and follow prompts
5. Reboot
6. At GRUB menu, select upgrade to Fedora 17
7. Receive error during boot
  
Actual results:
Upgrade process errors out during boot and drops the user to shell with the warning listed above and no other information really about how to fix the issue. Cannot reboot via commands 'shutdown' or 'reboot' due to a failure to access init. Attempted '/init 6' as 'init' was not even recognized as a command, but that failed too.

Expected results:
Upgrade to F17

Additional info:
This is being done in a VM, as Fedora 16 is installed in a VirtualBox VM on top of Windows 7. VBox version is 4.1.12.

This is NOT related to Bug 748119 as I do not run /var on its own partition:

[speeddy@blackhole ~]$ df -h
Filesystem                  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs                       10G  4.9G  5.0G  50% /
devtmpfs                    740M     0  740M   0% /dev
tmpfs                       751M   80K  750M   1% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/vg_sda-lv_root   10G  4.9G  5.0G  50% /
tmpfs                       751M   50M  701M   7% /run
tmpfs                       751M     0  751M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs                       751M     0  751M   0% /media
/dev/sda2                  1022M  272M  699M  29% /boot
/dev/mapper/vg_sda-lv_opt   2.0G  214M  1.7G  11% /opt
/dev/mapper/vg_sda-lv_home  2.0G  384M  1.6G  20% /home
none                        150G   45G  105G  30% /media/sf_Shared
/dev/sr0                     49M   49M     0 100% /media/VBOXADDITIONS_4.1.12_77245

Fedora 16 remains bootable after rebooting using VM controls since none of the linux commands to reboot were working. Attempted to reboot into upgrade again with same results.

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I do get some kernel module loading errors during the init process though none of them occur before "Loading Fedora 17 x86_64 installer..."

After the "Loading" message above, I get "dracut: rd.lvm=0: removing LVM activation" followed by some registration messages for tcp and udp transports, then my NIC driver loads up followed by:

[12.379468] dracut: anaconda using disk root at /dev/sda1
[12.432645] EXT4-fs (sda2): recovery complete
[12.433569] EXT4-fs (sda2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[12.471716] dracut Warning: no suitable images
dracut Warning: no suitable images
[35.530684] dracut Warning: Unable to process initqueue
dracut Warning: Unable to process initqueue
[35.533058] dracut Warning: /dev/root does not exist
dracut Warning: /dev/root does not exist
Dropping to debug shell.

dracut:/# _

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Hope this is enough info to resolve the issue, as I cannot currently copy/paste in the tty shell (GPM is not installed since it is preupgrade). I can take screenshots if needed, however.