Bug 31028

Summary:	Installer stage 1 cannot start due to kernel not being loaded
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Kristoffer Grundström <lovaren>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	davidwhodgins, jyri2000, lewyssmith
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:

Description Kristoffer Grundström 2022-10-26 00:50:15 CEST

Description of problem: I just burned Mageia-Cauldron-netinstall-nonfree-x86_64.iso to my brand new USB stick and as I rebooted into the boot menu (F12 during startup) I see a message saying that I need to load the kernel first. This has never happened to me before.

How reproducible: Everytime when I boot the installer for Cauldron from the USB stick.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open your desired web browser
2. Go to https://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mageia/distrib/cauldron/x86_64/install/images/Mageia-Cauldron-netinstall-nonfree-x86_64.iso and download the iso.
3. Burn the iso to a USB stick using dd.
4. Reboot the computer and boot to the USB stick.
5. When you press Enter/Return to install Cauldron a smaller shell window appears telling you to load the kernel first and to press any key to continue. Pressing any key reproduces this issue all the time.

Kristoffer Grundström 2022-10-26 00:50:26 CEST

Hardware: All => x86_64

Comment 1 Dave Hodgins 2022-10-26 02:13:41 CEST

I've just tried it using that iso in a vb guest and have reached the point
of the language selection in stage2. I won't continue the test at this point
as I don't want to overwrite that vb guest.

Try again and use isodumper to copy it to the usb stick. isodumper ensures
the copy has completed which is not the case with dd if you reboot or remove
the stick too soon after the dd command returns to the command prompt.

Also make sure the size of the downloaded copy of the iso is ...
111149056 Oct 23 18:12 Mageia-Cauldron-netinstall-nonfree-x86_64.iso

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

Comment 2 Lewis Smith 2022-10-26 08:41:29 CEST

Thank you Kristoffer for the report, and Dave for his comment.
Await the outcome.

CC: (none) => lewyssmith

Comment 3 Jüri Ivask 2022-10-31 08:43:29 CET

Duplicate of 30932?

CC: (none) => jyri2000

Comment 4 Lewis Smith 2022-10-31 17:59:32 CET

Thank you for that, Jüri. I think you are right.
 https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30932#c0

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 30932 ***

Resolution: (none) => DUPLICATE
Status: NEW => RESOLVED

Comment 5 Kristoffer Grundström 2022-11-01 18:11:21 CET

This problem is now solved based on https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30932#c13