Description of problem: Fedora 12 Beta install DVD fails to start in rescue mode on PowerPC Steps to reproduce: After typing "linux rescue" on the yaboot command prompt, the installer asks for selecting the keyboard layout and after that asks "What type of media contains the rescue image?". After selecting "Local CD/DVD", it spins the drive for a few seconds, then ejects the DVD and shows the message "The Fedora disc was not found in any of your CDROM drives. Please insert the Fedora disc and press OK to retry." The disc has been verified and reported OK by the normal installer (i.e. not in rescue mode) and doing a regular install on the same machine works. Only the rescue mode fails. This is on a PowerPC-based Mac Mini. How reproducible: Always Additional info: the log, that is printed by the installer on /dev/tty3 (shown by pressing alt+f3) is: 19:14:12 INFO : kernel command line: ro rescue 19:14:12 INFO : anaconda version 12.37 on ppc starting 19:14:12 INFO : 242880 kB are available FATAL: Module floppy not found. FATAL: Module edd not found. FATAL: Module iscsi_ibft not found. FATAL: Module spufs not found. 19:14:14 INFO : trying to mount CD device /dev/hdb on /mnt/stage2 19:14:14 INFO : drive status is CDS_DISC_OK 19:14:15 INFO : 242880 kB are available 19:14:55 ERROR : failed to mount loopback device /dev/loop0 on /mnt/runtime as /tmp/install.img: (null) 19:14:55 INFO : mounting stage2 failed 19:14:58 INFO : setting language to en_US.UTF-8 19:14:58 INFO : 53 keymaps are available 19:15:40 INFO : starting STEP_STAGE2 19:15:40 INFO : trying to mount CD device /dev/hdb on /mnt/stage2 19:15:40 INFO : drive status is CDS_DISC_OK 19:15:40 INFO : 242880 kB are available 19:16:21 ERROR : failed to mount loopback device /dev/loop0 on /mnt/runtime as /tmp/install.img: (null) 19:16:21 INFO : mounting stage2 failed 19:16:21 INFO : ejecting /dev/hdb...
Please attach the logs on tty4 as well.
Created attachment 366442 [details] tty4, before selecting "Local CD/DVD"
Created attachment 366443 [details] tty4, after selecting "Local CD/DVD"
Bug still occurs with the RC1 image from here: http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/12-RC.1/Fedora-12-ppc-DVD/ Any ideas?
Could you try adding text to the yaboot line, think this is a dup of 529392, anaconda code: /* if in rescue mode lets copy stage 2 into RAM so we can */ /* free up the CD drive and user can have it avaiable to */ /* aid system recovery. */ if (FL_RESCUE(flags) && !FL_TEXT(flags) && totalMemory() > 128000) { rc = copyFile(stage2loc, "/tmp/install.img"); stage2img = strdup("/tmp/install.img"); stage2inram = 1; } else { stage2img = strdup(stage2loc); stage2inram = 0; }
Yep, that's it, adding "text" to the boot line fixes it, thanks. The machine has 256MB RAM.
This indeed is a dup of 529392 then, closing as such. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 529392 ***