Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 431661
No kernel packages were installed
Last modified: 2008-02-08 17:38:29 EST
Description of problem: I'm rebuilding my F8 desktop using brand new SCSI disks. Fedora is being installed on the boot drive. At the end of every install, the error "No kernel packages were installed" is displayed before the reboot message. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Every install I've tried over the last 2 days Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Fedora 8 from i386 DVD Actual results: "No kernel packages were installed" error at end of install Expected results: Good install Additional info: On reboot, the machine complains there is no OS on the disk (can't remember the full wording). I've booted into rescue mode via the install DVD and done a re-insall of grub on /dev/sda. This lets grub run when I boot up, but there is no menu, no options etc. I've looked at the filesystem and found kernel packages WERE installed. The files that are missing appear to be /boot/grub/grub.conf and /boot/grub/menu.lst (at least). As a fix, I will try creating these files by hand (I have a working laptop installation to copy from). I did have the error the last time I re-installed F8 from scratch, but can't remember how I got around it.
Is this with a full install? Can you switch to tty2 when this occurs (or go into rescue mode) and grab /mnt/sysimage/root/install.log and /tmp/anaconda.log (or /mnt/sysimage/var/log/anaconda.log from rescue mode)?
I've managed to coax the install into working by booting the DVD into rescue mode, creating and hand editing the relevant grub.conf files and reinstalling grub. I reinstalled grub first, but that left me with no grub menu. Providing the grub.conf file (there were no /etc/grub.conf, /boot/grub/grub.conf or boot/grub/menu.lst files, so I put the links and the file in place and copied the grub.conf from my laptop) allowed me to boot grub and select options from the menu.
Created attachment 294402 [details] /var/log/anaconda.log
Created attachment 294404 [details] /root/install.log
"Is this a full install?" Sorry - forgot to answer this. The install was "fullsome", but I didn't include all packages. There was nothing excluded, however, that ought to have left grub off the disk. In fact, grub WAS installed as the rpm was in the package list, I just needed the config files and to grub-install it. Does the grub-install put it in the MBR or Boot Partition (wherever I've selected it goes)? The install went to near completion before giving me the error. After clicking OK, I was then presented with the normal reboot message that follows all successful installs. I tried several times with several different package lists. One thing I thought might be the case is that I've got 6Gb of RAM in the machine - perhaps Fedora was failing to install fully because of this? I removed 2Gb RAM to take it to 4 but it still failed. In desperation, I removed a further 2Gb to take it to 2Gb which should be more than adequate to do what I needed. None of the options I tried resulted in a successful install. As this is my main machine, I may not be able to test further points, but can provide any of the log files that may be required. I do have an extra disk in the system for further testing, but I'd banked on using this for Fedora 9 Alpha testing.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 388231 ***