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Description of problem: When prompted to select the directory for hard drive installation, a leading slash is necessary in the directory name. RHEL 5 did not care. Moreover, the path being specified is a relative path, not an absolute path, and therefore *shouldn't* start with a /, though I'm perfectly happy for that to be tolerated, too. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RHEL 6 Beta 1 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot RHEL 6 Beta 1 Anaconda 2. Select hard drive installation 3. Choose a partition wich contains the RHEL6.iso and images/ directory in a subdirectory 4. enter the subdirectory name as "subdirectory" or "subdirectory/" Actual results: Anaconda does not find the install media Expected results: Anaconda finds the install meda Additional info:
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Can you attach the logs please? At least a screenshot of VT3, where we show the anaconda.log. It will easier the debugging. Thanks
If you can reproduce this and come up with the data requested in comment #3, please feel free to reopen this bug. To make it in RHEL6 GA, you'll need to do so pretty quickly, though.
Created attachment 422381 [details] Anaconda log This was done just now, using bits from the 20100603.1 compose for x86_64. I think the interesting stuff starts at line 43. This is a mostly-kickstart install where we deliberately leave the install source out of the KS and require manual selection. I typed it without the leading / the first time, and with the 2nd time. Later the install barfs because I named the iso image 'dvd.iso' instead of 'RHEL6.iso', but that is *not* this bug.
Re-opening as requested. Sorry for the delay, somehow I missed comment #3 showing up entirely, and then I was busy with a newborn for a couple weeks.
This will be included in the next version of anaconda.
Created attachment 429770 [details] anaconda.log With snapshot #7 (0701.3 tree): 1) Select only /dev/vdb1 without entering the directory name - stage2 is started 2) Select vdb1 and enter "images" into the text field - error finding installation image 3) Select vdb1 and enter "images/" into the text field - error finding installation image 4) Select vdb1 and enter "/images" into the text field - error finding installation image 5) Select vdb1 and enter "/images/" into the text field - error finding installation image 6) Select vdb1 and enter "/images/install.img" into the text field - stage2 finally starts. anaconda.log is attached (grabbed it after the 6th attempt). Moving back to ASSIGNED.
And what about "images/install.img"?
(In reply to comment #11) > And what about "images/install.img"? stage2 starts.
So where is the problem?
Here's the problem, reproduced just now with beta2 bits. notice the lines starting "14:31:41,824" where I typed "rhel6/isos" as the "Drictory holding image". I *think* Alexander's responses up there may mean it's fixed. I'll test later today with 0707.4 and update the bug with my results. 14:31:31,777 INFO : starting STEP_STAGE2 14:31:41,805 INFO : partition /dev/sda1 selected 14:31:41,805 INFO : mounting device /dev/sda1 for hard drive install 14:31:41,824 INFO : Path to stage2 image is /mnt/isodirrhel6/isos/images/install.img 14:31:41,824 ERROR : failed to open /mnt/isodirrhel6/isos/images/install.img: No such file or directory 14:31:41,824 INFO : umounting loopback /mnt/runtime /dev/loop0 14:31:41,824 ERROR : LOOP_CLR_FD failed for /mnt/runtime /dev/loop0: No such device or address 14:31:54,813 INFO : partition /dev/sda1 selected 14:31:54,813 INFO : mounting device /dev/sda1 for hard drive install 14:31:54,831 INFO : Path to stage2 image is /mnt/isodir/rhel6/isos/images/install.img 14:31:59,034 INFO : mounted loopback device /mnt/runtime on /dev/loop0 as /tmp/install.img 14:31:59,035 INFO : Looking for updates for HD in /mnt/isodir/rhel6/isos/images/updates.img 14:31:59,035 INFO : Looking for product for HD in /mnt/isodir/rhel6/isos/images/product.img 14:31:59,046 INFO : mounted loopback device /tmp/product-disk on /dev/loop7 as /mnt/isodir/rhel6/isos/images/product.img 14:31:59,050 INFO : umounting loopback /tmp/product-disk /dev/loop7 14:31:59,050 ERROR : LOOP_CLR_FD failed for /tmp/product-disk /dev/loop7: No such device or address 14:31:59,077 INFO : got stage2 at url hd:/dev/sda1://rhel6/isos/images/install.img
Tested with the 20100707.4 build and it's working fine, at least for my use case.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 is now available and should resolve the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of CURRENTRELEASE. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you.