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Bug 795519 - virt-install URL install fails with dracut Warning: dracut: FATAL: No or empty root= argument
Summary: virt-install URL install fails with dracut Warning: dracut: FATAL: No or empt...
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: anaconda
Version: 7.0
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: alpha
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Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Release Test Team
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-02-20 19:01 UTC by Richard Marko
Modified: 2016-02-01 02:22 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of: 785815
Environment:
Last Closed: 2014-06-13 11:50:42 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
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Comment 4 Harald Hoyer 2012-02-29 17:12:21 UTC 
might be related? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798660
Comment 6 Martin Jenner 2012-03-19 20:28:51 UTC 
Here is an example of how to use the workaround and install a guest using
virt-manager substitute the appropriate $distro

- Installing with RHEL-6 virt-manager

  - click the 'Create a new virtual machine' button
   - choose a name for your VM, select Network Install click the 'Forward' button
   - set installation URL '$distro', URL Options: kernel parameters to 'root=live:$distro/LiveOS/squashfs.img ip=dhcp'  OS_TYPE 'Linux', OS Variant 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6' click the 'Forward' button
   - select Memory and CPUs click the 'Forward' button
   - select disk type if file I suggest a size of 8GB click the 'Forward' button
   - review and click 'Finish'
   - now install using anaconda as normal


- Installing with an older RHEL-5 virt-manager

  - highlight the hypervisor line then click the 'New' button
   - choose a name for your VM click the 'Forward' button
   - select Fully Virtualized click the 'Forward' button
   - select 'network install', OS_TYPE 'Linux', OS Variant 'Generic 2.6.x kernel' click the 'Forward' button
   - set installation media to '$distro', kernel parameters to 'root=live:$distro/LiveOS/squashfs.img ip=dhcp' click the 'Forward' button
   - select disk type, if file I suggest a size of 8GB click the 'Forward' button
   - select network (for now I have only tested 'Default') click the 'Forward' button
   - select vcpus and memory click the 'Forward' button
   - review and click 'Finish'
   - now install using anaconda as normal
Comment 8 Harald Hoyer 2012-04-27 11:45:48 UTC 
quoting
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=811851#c17

With F17 Beta / RHEL7 Alpha 2, the "root=live:XXX" workaround shouldn't be
necessary anymore. In fact, mixing root=live:[URL] and repo=[URL]/ks=[URL] is
likely to cause problems.

Are you using a RHEL7 Alpha 2 build? If so, could you please try with just
repo=[URL] ks=[URL] instead? (These arguments match what's in the existing docs
for anaconda.)
Comment 12 Ludek Smid 2014-06-13 11:50:42 UTC 
This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

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