Bug 724011 - System won't install from bootable USB device
Summary: System won't install from bootable USB device
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: anaconda
Version: 6.1
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Release Test Team
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-07-21 17:38 UTC by Joe Kirby
Modified: 2011-07-22 21:56 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2011-07-22 21:56:59 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
kickstart file in use (3.76 KB, text/plain)
2011-07-21 17:38 UTC, Joe Kirby
no flags Details
anaconda.log (4.62 KB, text/plain)
2011-07-22 10:45 UTC, Joe Kirby
no flags Details
storage.log (41.44 KB, text/plain)
2011-07-22 10:45 UTC, Joe Kirby
no flags Details

Description Joe Kirby 2011-07-21 17:38:43 UTC
Created attachment 514248 [details]
kickstart file in use

I have created a bootable USB device with the install kernel and initrd as the boot source. My kickstart file is on the USB device along with the distro DVD image and an "images" directory.

Everything goes along fine until the system starts to configure the storage. The the following window appears:

Unknown Device: The installation source given by device ['sda1'] could not be found. Please check you parameters and try again.

The only exit choice is an "Exit Install" button.

I have tried with and without the "ignoredisk" option in the kickstart.
The options pass to the kernel are "ks=hd:sda1:/ks.cfg repo=hd:sda1:/". I have also tried with and without the "repo" options.

Comment 2 Chris Lumens 2011-07-22 01:42:30 UTC
There's no need to use the ignoredisk command, as drives used as the installation source are automatically excluded as destinations.  Can you please attach /tmp/anaconda.log and /tmp/storage.log to this bug report?

Comment 3 Joe Kirby 2011-07-22 10:45:11 UTC
Created attachment 514652 [details]
anaconda.log

Comment 4 Joe Kirby 2011-07-22 10:45:52 UTC
Created attachment 514653 [details]
storage.log

Comment 5 Brian Lane 2011-07-22 21:11:17 UTC
I'll bet you've previously dd'd an iso to this USB stick, right?

10:39:54,994 DEBUG   : type detected on 'sda' is 'iso9660'

You need to erase the iso signature from USB stick before using it. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/whatever bs=1M count=1 should do the trick. Or if wipefs is available you can use wipefs -a /dev/whatever

Comment 6 Joe Kirby 2011-07-22 21:39:55 UTC
Indeed, I had previously dd'd an iso to this stick. I ran wipefs on it, and everything works fine!

Thanks!


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