Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 146425
Cannot install Fedora Core 3 from hard disk
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:59 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pt-PT; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050109 Fedora/1.7.5-3 Description of problem: I am using Fedora Core 2. Now, I want to install Fedora Core 3. I downloaded the four Fedora Core 3 image discs and saved under /home/anderson/Minhas_coisas/Downloads/kget. I didn't change their names. I has a CD-RW only, so I used the 'boot.iso' image, located in CD1 under '/images'. After this, I restarted my computer. I booted this CD and all worked ok, but... when I choose the source partition and the source path, Anaconda returns 'No such file or directory' error. After, I saw the kernel messages (ALT+F4). I saw Anaconda tries to mount a ext2 partition, after, a vfat partition, and then fails, because my system runs in a ReiserFS partition. I couldn't continue the installation process, because Anaconda didn't find the source images. ALT+F2 didn't open a shell, so I was unable to load the reiserfs module. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install Fedora Core 2 under a ReiserFS partition 2.Download the four Fedora Core 3 iso images. Save them in the root partition (I didn't do this, but I think there won't have difference). 3.Extract FC3-i386-disc1.iso and burn a CD-RW with the file (FC3disc1)/images/boot.iso 4.Boot the computer using this CD-RW 5.Try to start a hard disk installation. Actual Results: Anaconda couldn't mount the partition where the images are. Expected Results: Anaconda should mount my ReiserFS partition, find the images and continue the installation. Additional info: I am brazilian; If I wrote something wrong, sorry... No more additional information. Folloy the steps to reproduce the bug and you will get it. I am sure.
As a workaround, I created a ext2 partition and put the images there. It was a hard work!!!
The only filesystems that are supported right now in the first stage of the loader are ext2 (and therefore ext3), vfat, and iso9660. This is because we aren't yet at a point where kernel modules can be loaded so only filesystems built into the kernel are usable. Unfortunately, there are space constraints for our boot kernel so only a very few filesystems can be supported.