Bug 873647
Summary: | inst.repo=hd:<device>:/path is not used as repository | ||||||||||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Michal Kovarik <mkovarik> | ||||||||
Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Will Woods <wwoods> | ||||||||
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||||||
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||||
Priority: | medium | ||||||||||
Version: | 18 | CC: | g.kaviyarasu, jonathan, jreiser, pf.rhlists, vanmeeuwen+fedora | ||||||||
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Target Release: | --- | ||||||||||
Hardware: | Unspecified | ||||||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||||||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||||
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||||
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Last Closed: | 2014-02-05 12:52:51 UTC | Type: | Bug | ||||||||
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||||
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||||
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Please also attach /tmp/packaging.log and /tmp/program.log. Thanks. Created attachment 639899 [details]
packaging.log
Created attachment 639900 [details]
program.log
Oh, one sec - step #1 from above reads: 1. copy content of DVD to native partition Did you copy the contents of the DVD to a partition, or did you copy the DVD image itself to the partition? Oh, sorry my mistake. Of course I copied contents of the DVD. I was confused from http://wwoods.fedorapeople.org/doc/boot-options.html#_inst_repo : inst.repo=hd:<device>:<path> Mount the given disk partition and install from the given path. It works for inst.stage2, so I suppose that it could work for inst.repo too. Ah, those docs should be changed then. anaconda does not support installing from an exploded image on a hard drive, only from an ISO image. (In reply to Chris Lumens from comment #6) > anaconda does not support installing from an exploded image on a hard drive, only from an ISO image. I suffer this in Fedora 19 Final TC3 (anaconda-19.30.5-1), and it means that the result of putting a .iso onto USB flash memory via livecd-iso-to-disk Fedora-19-Final-TC3-i386-DVD.iso /dev/sdc1 is not usable as installation source when booting with root=live:LABEL=LIVE inst.stage2=hd:UUID=<uuid> or root=live:LABEL=LIVE inst.stage2=hd:LABEL=LIVE The system boots and the installer starts just fine, but anaconda does not locate the repo which is on the USB flash memory, and the Installation Source spoke offers no file:// option to specify the repo manually. I want to use one of these because I cannot boot from USB, but I do have a spare partition to put copies of vmlinuz and initrd.img, and can boot those via custom grub stanza. I suppose that forces the use of physical DVD unless I can find 4.7GB of space on harddrive to hold the full .iso. Grumble. Booting from physical DVD does work with "inst.stage2=hd:LABEL=LIVE" which specifies the USB flash memory partition, and the installer does locate the repo on the USB partition, and gets all the packages from there. I don't understand why a kernel from DVD should be any better than a kernel from a disk partition. This message is a reminder that Fedora 18 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 18. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '18'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 18's end of life. Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 18 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 18's end of life. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. Fedora 18 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2014-01-14. Fedora 18 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. If you are unable to reopen this bug, please file a new report against the current release. If you experience problems, please add a comment to this bug. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |
Created attachment 639318 [details] anaconda.log Description of problem: I've tried installation from hard drive, system booted with inst.repo=hd:/dev/sdb1:/, install.img was used from partition sdb1 successfully, but as installation source is selected 'Closest mirror', and I can't select source from hard drive Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora-18-Beta-TC7 anaconda-18.24-1.fc18 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. copy content of DVD to native partition 2. start installation with inst.repo=hd:<device>:/path 3. check installation source Actual results: Closest mirror Expected results: selected partiton Additional info: