Bug 9773

Summary: Install of Mageia-3-RC-x86_64-DVD failed "An error occurred: mkinitrd failed"
Product: Mageia Reporter: Paul Blackburn <paul.blackburn>
Component: InstallerAssignee: Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal CC: eeeemail
Version: 3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Description Paul Blackburn 2013-04-17 15:33:47 CEST 
Description of problem:

Attempted to install Mageia-3-RC-x86_64-DVD on HP EliteBook 8560 laptop.
Install failed with this screen: http://i.imgur.com/t9Jpsit.jpg
"An error occurred
 mkinitrd failed
 (mkinitrd -v -f /boot/initrd-3.8.7-desktop-1-mga3.img 3.8.7-desktop-1-mga3)."

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Mageia-3-RC-x86_64-DVD install DVD 

How reproducible:
install fails at same place in 3 attempts

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot from Mageia-3-RC-x86_64-DVD
2. Install
3.

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:
Paul Blackburn 2013-04-17 15:33:58 CEST

Version: Cauldron => 3

Comment 1 Paul Blackburn 2013-04-17 16:05:37 CEST 
Used ctrl-alt-f2 and ran "bug" command to create a "report.bug" text file on USB memory stick.

This is available here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/gw8x83w7g9e2i36/report.bug
Comment 2 Paul Blackburn 2013-04-17 16:06:17 CEST 
photo of screen when bug occurred: http://i.imgur.com/t9Jpsit.jpg
Comment 3 claire robinson 2013-04-17 17:02:15 CEST 
I: *** Stripping files ***
I: *** Stripping files done ***
I: *** Creating image file ***

gzip: stdout: No space left on device
cpio: write error: Broken pipe
F: dracut: creation of /boot/initrd-3.8.7-desktop-1.mga3.img failed
* step "setupBootloader" took: 0:00:21
* error: mkinitrd failed:
(mkinitrd -v -f /boot/initrd-3.8.7-desktop-1.mga3.img 3.8.7-desktop-1.mga3) at /usr/lib/libDrakX/bootloader.pm line 137.
Comment 4 claire robinson 2013-04-17 17:03:35 CEST 
Seems to have been caused by the partition being full.

Was this a fresh installation or an upgrade?
Did you allow it to format the partition before it started?
How did you partition the drive? (automatic or manually)
and anything else you can think of which might help :)
claire robinson 2013-04-17 17:03:41 CEST

CC: (none) => eeeemail

Comment 5 Paul Blackburn 2013-04-17 18:03:41 CEST 
Fresh install. I partitioned manually like this:

unencrypted   - /boot      - 128mb
encrypted     - <swap>     - 32g
encrypted     - /          - 16g
encrypted     - /usr/local - 2g
encrypted     - /home - the remainder (> 400 gb)

I have just booted a Gparted liveCD to check the partitions sizes.
Gparted is reporting my /boot as 13mb. Hmm, that could well be my error.

I will re-install and this time make sure that /boot is 256mb
Comment 6 Paul Blackburn 2013-04-17 19:10:46 CEST 
OK, I re-installed and made sure that /boot was 256mb. The install completed OK.

My apologies: I must have created a wrongly sized /boot the first time around.
I don't know how that happened.

Closing bug.

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