Description of Problem: After making the local boot disk with instruction of http://www.redhat.com/support/manuals/RHL-7.1-Manual/install-guide/s1- steps-install-cdrom.html#S2-STEPS-MAKE-DISKS The installer loads up but then it trys to locate the CDRom ISO image of RH7.1 rather then the harddisk images of directories RPMS and else. Thus the installation is not working futhermore. How Reproducible: Just use the Redhat 7.1 ...\images\boot.img to make the boot disk. >>>> It is the incorrect boot.img causing this Steps to Reproduce: 1. As mentioned above 2. 3. Actual Results: The installer is looking for the CDRom ISO files. Expected Results: The installer should look for the harddisk images i.e. RPMS, etc instead of looking for the CDRom ISO files. Additional Information: >>>> It is the incorrect boot.img causing this >>>> I think RH has placed the boot-cdrom.img(?) into this boot.img as well.
No, we changed the way hard drive installs work. They now require that the ISO images be on the hard drive...not the installation tree. There were just soooo many people that had problems with it that changing it was the best thing to do. This is all documented in the release notes. Just download the isos, stick them on a partition, boot off the boot.img and then select "Hard Drive". That should work fine.
Can you tell me why it is not possible to have the installer support both methods? I downloaded the entire alpha distribution, only to find that I had to download both ISO images instead, *AGAIN*, because of this misfeature. As a secondary issue, which I will file in another bug, the hard disk install apparently requires the hard disk to be a FAT partition. This is not the case when UPGRADING....