Description of problem: Trying out the Fedora-7-Test3-KDE-Live.iso on my MacMini causes what appears to be a perfectly working livecd, and I can run the "Install to harddisk" fine, and it appears to succeed. But rebooting the machine it halts early in bootup, complaining about not being able to find any "init". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora-7-Test3-KDE-Live.iso How reproducible: Tried it twice, just to make sure. Then tried the normal (gnome) LiveCD to see if that also shows the same problem, but that one installed fine, and my Mac Mini is now in the middle of doing a "yum upgrade" Steps to Reproduce: 1. Get Fedora-7-Test3-KDE-Live.iso image, burn it, boot it 2. "Install to Harddisk" 3. reboot, watch it claim there is no "init". Actual results: Nonworking install Expected results: Purdy KDE desktop booting from harddisk Additional info: I love the LiveCD. I hope I never ever need to install any other way. But I'd like to have the choice of the KDE version..
I seem to remember some thread on either fedora-livecd-list or fedora-devel-list about this bug but can't find them right. Anyway, anaconda is the most likely suspect (perhaps it's just a missing RPM Requires) so moving the bug there and making this a blocker bug.
(it usually works better if I actually reassign the bug; sorry about that)
Btw, here's a link with more discussion of this bug https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-livecd-list/2007-March/msg00269.html It's probably going to be a lot easier to pinpoint the root problem when the KDE kickstart file lands in the livecd git repo http://git.fedoraproject.org/?p=hosted/livecd
also observed on the work1 Coppermine Pentium @600MHz. MSI mobo/VIA chipset. no exceptions or errors reported.
Thanks for confirming this bug. I've seen this before on my local machine but was not sure if this would happen elsewhere. Sadly I have no idea why this happens (and not on the gnome one, too). I can could only suggest a workaround for test3: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureFedoraKDE/KDELiveCD/Test3
Have a bit of a hacky workaround in the anaconda that will be in tomorrow's rawhide. Going to continue to look into what's going on, though, and hopefully get the real fix in time for test4
(In reply to comment #6) > Have a bit of a hacky workaround in the anaconda that will be in tomorrow's > rawhide. Going to continue to look into what's going on, though, and hopefully > get the real fix in time for test4 Great! anaconda-11.2.0.44-1 works for me. Installation is bootable again without the workaround. I've tested this in two ways: 1. with an actual spin of the KDE-LiveCD 2. updated anaconda and kudzu directly on the livecd before installation
What's there now is what we're going to go with for Fedora 7. Bigger changes will come after that.
For the record: I haven't encountered this bug since comment #7