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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050302 Firefox/1.0.1 Fedora/1.0.1-1.3.2 Description of problem: This is a fresh installation of fc4t1. The bootloader is on the MBR; there is a working fc3 installation on /dev/hda1. FC4t1 was installed on a newly created partition on /dev/hdc3, with reiserfs as filesystem. Before installation, the sha1 of the iso verified properly. During the installation everything seemed to go ok. At the first boot attempt, After starting nash, INIT claimed that it cannot find /etc/inittab and asked me to enter the runlevel. Regardless of which runlevel I'd enter, it'd say "no more processes in runlevel". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: Install fc4t1 on a partition on a different disk than the bootloader, attempt to boot. Actual Results: At the first boot attempt, After starting nash, INIT claimed that it cannot find /etc/inittab and asked me to enter the runlevel. Regardless of which runlevel I'd enter, it'd say "no more processes in runlevel". Expected Results: Normal bootup loading sequence at the default runlevel. Additional info: If the kernel parameter root=/dev/hda1 is passed (and /lib/modules/... is symlinked properly), the old system boots normally even with the new kernel. (that's what I'm using to submit this report). After loading the system this way and inspecting the fc4 partition, /etc/inittab indeed was missing.
Note: this installation was made from an i386 DVD that did not pass the self-check. However, people on various forums and mailing lists have said that all isos fail the self-check, so take this report with a grain of salt. Once isos that pass the self-check are made available, I'll try to reproduce.
What package selections did you make while installing? What does your bootloader config look like? I'm unable to reproduce this here with a straight rawhide install.
I have this problem too. My sha1sum pass on the ISO images but the disc fails the Media Check. Considering Comment #1 I am disregarding the Media Check. I had an fc3 installation, but I chose to format my /boot partition (ext2) and my root partiton (reiserfs) and do a fresh installation. I chose the Workstation selection of packages. Upon reboot I was greeted with the missing inittab. My experience was the same as the author of this bugzilla. I am now going to try to install fc3 and upgrade to fc4 and see if that behaves differntly.
based on my experiences with bug 151344 I decided to repeat the installation on an ext3 partition and everything worked fine. It seems that reiserfs is the culprit..
Reiserfs is completely unsupported. Please repoen if you see these same problems installing to an ext3 filesystem.
Upgrading from fc3 to fc4-test1 produced a (somewhat) working installation (inittab not missing). Will retry with ext3 instead.