Bug 4105

Summary:	Unable to boot Alpha3
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Magnus Rasche <magnus.mud>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Description Magnus Rasche 2012-01-12 23:24:12 CET

Description of problem:
Unable to boot Alpha3:

1. USB 4G
Unknown keyword in configuration file: USBCE@5t
No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found!
boot:

2. DVD / USB 8G
After the choice "Install" in the boot menue I get a kernel panic with:
not syncing: VS: Unable to mount root fs on unkknown-block(0,0)
Pid:1, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.2.0-desktop-1.mga2 #1
Call trace:
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Comment 1 Magnus Rasche 2012-01-12 23:41:32 CET

Seems a problem with my machine!

On a second pc, the installation starts with the same DVD (KDE 64 bit).

Comment 2 Magnus Rasche 2012-01-13 20:17:01 CET

Yesterday installation stopped (during texlive)

Installtion (full KDE 64) with 8 GB usb stick failed, same as above.
Here I used two exsiting partitions with an old mageia1 for / and /home.

For the next try I deleted the partitions and started on one new partition.

Now installation and reboot is ok!

Comment 3 Manuel Hiebel 2012-01-16 15:23:48 CET

So that was the partitions ?

Comment 4 Magnus Rasche 2012-01-16 20:18:21 CET

Maybe, but I don't know.
For my feeling (and its only a feeling) the installer has probs with old partitions.
On my test pc I will change the hd, because there some installations also failed and a successful installation of a Mageia1 needs are very, very long time. 

I hope tommorrow in the evening

Comment 5 Magnus Rasche 2012-01-18 22:07:30 CET

(In reply to comment #3)
> So that was the partitions ?

/ and /home

Comment 6 Magnus Rasche 2012-01-18 22:13:37 CET

I think my description doesn't help.

In the moment I have problems with the installation on several machines and I don't able to desvribe the problems.
Some things hang during installation (finding partitions, mounting partitions)

I will restart anf the write a bug with a "good" description.

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