Bug 1195257 - /boot too small, install did not copy all of initrd, system would not boot, silent failure
Summary: /boot too small, install did not copy all of initrd, system would not boot, s...
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1194958
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 21
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-02-23 13:43 UTC by Wade Hampton
Modified: 2015-02-23 14:27 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2015-02-23 14:27:09 UTC
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Description Wade Hampton 2015-02-23 13:43:15 UTC
Description of problem:  Installed F21 64-bit on an older computer using the pre-existing partitions.  Received a warning that the size of /boot might be too small (100M).  Install completed without any errors displayed.  System would not boot normally, but would boot to the recovery partition.  /boot was full and the initrd for normal boot was incomplete.  


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


How reproducible:  Have not tried to reproduce.  Manually deleted partitions to fix and allow computer to be usable.


Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Have older Linux in existing partitions.  /boot was 100MB in size.
2.  Install F21 (in my case, from USB)
3.  Select manual partitioning
4.  allow reformat of /boot and /, but keep existing partitions.
5.  Ignore warning about size of /boot
6.  Complete install (no errors displayed, install completes normally)
7.  Reboot, reboot fails with kernel oops

Actual results:  First boot fails with kernel oops (recovery mode is OK).

Expected results:  Error message displayed during creation of /boot aborting install.


Additional info:  I only received a warning about my /boot being
smaller than "RECOMMENDED", not that it was too small for an install.
The install appeared to succeed, despite not being able to build the initrd for the normal boot.  This is a silent failure and should be displayed as an error in anaconda.

Comment 1 David Shea 2015-02-23 14:27:09 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1194958 ***


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