Bug 827644
| Summary: | any linux will not install on my machine because it cannot find the disc drive... | ||||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | SF <shadowyfreak> | ||||||||
| Component: | dracut | Assignee: | dracut-maint | ||||||||
| Status: | CLOSED CANTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||||||
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||||||
| Priority: | unspecified | ||||||||||
| Version: | 17 | CC: | awilliam, bloch, dracut-maint, greno, harald, jonathan, kevin, wwoods | ||||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2012-06-06 09:38:52 UTC | Type: | Bug | ||||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||||
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Description
SF
2012-06-01 23:54:33 UTC
if you are in the dracut debug shell, can you type: # ls -l /dev/disk/by* any attach a photo? Today tried installing F17 x86_64 from DVD and get these errors:
ERROR: could not insert 'floppy': No such device
Loading Fedora 17 x86_64 installer...
dracut Warning: Unable to process initqueue
dracut Warning: /dev/disk/by-label/Fedorax2017x20x86_64 does not exist
dracut Warning: /dev/mapper/live-rw does not exist
Dropping to debug shell.
dracut:/#
This laptop does not have a 'floppy' device.
Created attachment 589265 [details]
ls -l /dev/disk/by*
Attached a screenshot.
The 'floppy' error has nothing to do with it, to be clear: the key issue here is the:
dracut Warning: /dev/disk/by-label/Fedorax2017x20x86_64 does not exist
dracut Warning: /dev/mapper/live-rw does not exist
Your system doesn't recognize the CD/DVD in the drive. Likely causes:
* Bad burn / bad media
This is pretty common. Try using "checkisomd5 /dev/sr0" (from the existing
F16 install) to check the burned media. If it fails, burn a new one.
* Your DVD drive doesn't like that type/brand of media
This is also not uncommon. DVD/CD-RW drives can be very picky.
I've seen drives that would happily *write* to a certain brand of media
but not *read* it after they burned it.
If you can't verify the media, try using a different type/brand.
Basically, you need to verify that drive can actually read the media you burned. The easiest way is to use 'checkisomd5' after burning it. If the check is successful *every* time, but the installer *still* doesn't start when you reboot, there might be something else going on here (driver problems etc.)
will: there's nothing odd about the 'x's in the label? Will, you were right. I burned another sloptical disk on a different machine and this one seemed to work better. Albeit not perfect. Still got some rpcbind errors that zoomed by before the installer started. . try this workaround: - press tab to get to the kernel command line - replace "root=...." with "root=live:/dev/sr0" (In reply to comment #7) > Will, you were right. > > I burned another sloptical disk on a different machine and this one seemed > to work better. Albeit not perfect. > > Still got some rpcbind errors that zoomed by before the installer started. > > . ah, ok.. cool forget about comment 8 Created attachment 589464 [details]
output from suggested dracut command
i ran the command # ls -l /dev/disk/by* as suggested and have uploaded the picture to the attachments... i do not believe it to be the media because it starts to install proceedure from the menu and then dies so clearly the disk is working someone on the irc channel suggested the command root=live:/dev/sr0 as per the post above and that didnt work either - it couldnt find sr0 rather then the normal error of /dev/mapper (as per original image) i did a check sum on the downloaded iso and not sure how to check the burned iso on the disk under windows my knowledge of linux is tiny can it be bios related? i dont really wish to flash my bios (In reply to comment #11) > > i ran the command > # ls -l /dev/disk/by* > as suggested and have uploaded the picture to the attachments... > > i do not believe it to be the media because it starts to install proceedure > from the menu and then dies so clearly the disk is working Ah, so _you_ see the "install" button and have a mouse and desktop? sorry i dont understand your point mr hoyer...could you clarify please? I have managed to fix the problem - or at least found a hack for it in exec summary * tried installing from a live version installed on usb and it did not work because it could not find the hard drive * i updated my bios (scary stuff for me) * i tried installing from a the usb again and it didnt want to boot * i turned off my hard drive - booted again - usb worked - turned on my hard drive when the usb install was just starting and fedora picked up the hard drive its definatly something hardware/bios related so yeah ... should this be closed or does anyone need anything specific from me? |