Description of problem: I try to install using the hard disk image technique which has worked for the past several releases, but it almost always tells me there is an error finding the install image, or doesn't tell me there is an error, but just goes ahead and asks me where the image is even though I put the repo=hd... info on the kernel boot options. Here's my grub stanza (I've also tried it with LABEL= rather than /dev/sdb2) title Install Fedora 14 Alpha x86_64 root (hd0,6) kernel /boot/f14x/vmlinuz repo=hd:/dev/sdb2:/downloads/otherinbox/Fedora-14-Alpha-x86_64-DVD/ nomodeset vesa xdriver=vesa initrd /boot/f14x/initrd.img The Fedora-14-Alpha-x86_64-DVD referred to contains just the DVD .iso file and an images/ subdir where I extracted the install.img file. I think I may have once gotten it to actually startup anaconda by manually specifying the path, but I immediately hit the ATI video problem in the common bugs list :-) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Whatever is on the Alpha DVD image How reproducible: I've tried booting the above stuff 4 times now, and only had the one time where I got as far as trying to start the GUI, but then not automatically. Steps to Reproduce: 1.boot the installer kernel with repo=hd::... 2.watch it fail to find the image 3. Actual results: constant errors Expected results: installer starts up Additional info: I think I see a lot of kernel backtrace happening as the boot takes place, but it scrolls off the screen so fast I can't be sure.
100% Reproduced. I saved the ISO and images/ under /aa/ of my /dev/sda3 and used repo=hd:/dev/sda3:/aa/ as kernel parameter and boot the system. After the error page, anaconda asked for reconfiguring the image path. But I noticed that the default directory was /images/install.img instead of /aa/images/install.img which I specified on the boot command. So I put image/ under / of /dev/sda3 and still used repo=hd:/dev/sda3:/aa as boot command. This time install.img was retrieved successfully. When I checked the anaconda.log(see attached), it used images/install.img under / even if I specified /aa. So I guess the directories specified on the boot command is not honored.
Created attachment 440838 [details] anaconda.log after images/ is put under / while another directory specified as boot argument
I just tried booting off hard disk using the Beta TC1 x86_64 DVD iso and the repo worked fine with the /downloads/otherinbox/yadda-yadda-yadda path specification, so it looks as if this is fixed in latest version.
Matches final release criteria "The installer must be able to use all supported local and remote package source options " * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_Final_Release_Criteria
Verified fixed in anaconda 14.17.1 of F-14-beta-tc1.
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/anaconda-14.17.4-1.fc14 A fix for this issue is included, and has been verified, in F-14-Beta. Closing this issue out. Please open if the problem remains.