Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 816854
fc17 beta cd install drops to dracut on boot with grub 1: "can't mount root"
Last modified: 2012-07-03 04:22:43 EDT
Created attachment 580672 [details] anaconda, dracut and dmesg logs Description of problem: Just installed FC17 Beta from cd a number of times (selecting the Software Development group). I've tried both letting the install set up partitions and doing it manually. Grub2 fails to install properly giving an error near the end of the install (grub config and directory appears in boot partition, but loads with a single flashing cursor/underline and nothing happens). I install grub 1 with no issues using a FC15 CD instead to boot (couldn't find a way to use fc17 cd as live). All installs result in dropping to dracut shell just after kernel loads, with warnings: dracut Warning: /sysroot has no proper rootfs layout, ignoring and removing offending mount hook dracut Warning: can't mount root filesystem all drives and partitions are visible, mounting manually within dracut is not an issue Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel version 3.3.0-1 (no obvious method to print dracut version) How reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. install fc17 beta from cd. (receive bootloader error message) 2. install grub1, write mbr and create grub.conf 3. try to boot Actual results: drops to dracut shell Expected results: fedora boots
Hello, I almost spend 4 hours to understand what is going with this. Then I run a debug application and I found the reason: It seems that the Fedora developers fucked with their mothers, so they did a mistake while build that beta iso.. simples!
(In reply to comment #0) > Created attachment 580672 [details] > anaconda, dracut and dmesg logs > > Description of problem: > Just installed FC17 Beta from cd a number of times (selecting the Software > Development group). I've tried both letting the install set up partitions > and doing it manually. > Grub2 fails to install properly giving an error near the end of the install > (grub config and directory appears in boot > partition, but loads with a single flashing cursor/underline and nothing > happens). > I install grub 1 with no issues using a FC15 CD instead to boot (couldn't > find a way to use fc17 cd as live). > All installs result in dropping to dracut shell just after kernel loads, with > warnings: > > dracut Warning: /sysroot has no proper rootfs layout, ignoring and removing > offending mount hook > dracut Warning: can't mount root filesystem > > all drives and partitions are visible, mounting manually within dracut is > not an issue > > Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): > kernel version 3.3.0-1 > (no obvious method to print dracut version) > > How reproducible: > every time > > Steps to Reproduce: > 1. install fc17 beta from cd. (receive bootloader error message) > 2. install grub1, write mbr and create grub.conf > 3. try to boot > > Actual results: > drops to dracut shell > > Expected results: > fedora boots hmm, you can try "root=/dev/sda4" and boot without any initramfs