Description of problem: Installation to Gigabyte GA-MA770-S3P motherboard (BIOS firmware) fails with; Error opening symlink definitions file '/tmp/stage2/usr/share/symlinks' FATAL ERROR IN INIT: Fatal error finishing initialization (could not create symlinks). I can't recover from this, please reboot manually and send bugreport. Failes after "loading program into memory". Note: this machine has two optical drives, that has always been a problem for Mageia, Mandriva, and Mandrake. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Mageia-5-beta1-x86_64-DVD.iso How reproducible: Failed three out of three attempts on first optical drive, worked on second optical drive. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Poweron, insert DVD 2. wait Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce:
Thanks for the bug report. Could you provide the file /root/drakx/report.bug.xz as an attachment ? If you don't have the file, you can switch to console 2 (by pressing 'Ctrl-Alt-F2') during installation, put a floppy in floppy drive or plug a USB key/stick and type: 'bug' then press Enter. It will put report.bug on the floppy/key.
Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
Ctrl-Alt-F2 only gave me a blinking cursor. Typing 'bug' blind did not seem to put anything on the USB stick. Using the live CD; boots from the second optical drive, fails in the first. Loading Linux Kernal proceeds rapidly to about 75% then slowly to 100% and pops up the message, "/boot/cdrom/initrd.gz: file not found". Clicking OK returns to the screen offering to install Mageia, boot from hard drive, etc. Selecting 'Boot Mageia 5 Cauldron' starts Loading Linux Kernel, slowly. Followed by; EDD: Error 8000 reading sector 1118 Loading /boot/cdrom/initrd.gz failed: No such file or directory Ctrl-Alt-Fn did nothing at this stage.
Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)Whiteboard: (none) => 5beta1
Is is still valid
CC: (none) => mageia, thierry.vignaud
So the "symlinks" part here is really just a red-herring. The real problem is that it was unable to mount the filesystem from the CD drive. I guess that comes from not using a proper mount daemon like udisks to do this for us :( I don't really know the code that does the mounting of stage2 here in relation to optical drives - so will have to see if there is some kind of better enumeration we can use as a sticking plaster.
http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx/tree/mdk-stage1/init.c#n430 create_initial_fs_symlinks() is called from: http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx/tree/mdk-stage1/init.c#n523
CC: (none) => gouessej
I obtain exactly the same error message when trying to boot on the EFI of Mageia 4 to install it on a MacBook Pro 3.1. Should I write a separate bug report?
No, mga4 installer is frozen
Does it work better if you boot from USB instead of a CDROM?
Source RPM: (none) => drakx-installer-binariesKeywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
I tried to do so several days ago with Mageia 5 beta 2. I saw "Welcome to GRUB", it seemed to work but it stayed frozen after a few minutes with a message about UMTP update. I will post a screen capture later.
*** Bug 12404 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 11991 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
CC: (none) => admin
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11991#c2 suggests it happens when there's not enough RAM... Maybe stage1 should refuse to boot if there's lesse than 512Mb of memory?
Severity: major => normal
There are 2 GB of RAM on this MacBook Pro 3.2.
Any usefull stuff on tty[234]?
Also, as mga4 installer is frozen, it'll never be updated. Can you try mga5 RC instead?
(In reply to Thierry Vignaud from comment #15) > Also, as mga4 installer is frozen, it'll never be updated. > Can you try mga5 RC instead? That's why I tried with Mageia 5 beta 2. Where is there an ISO of the RC that I can put into the USB key with Isodumper?
You shouldn't ask when the answer is so easy to find: http://www.mageia.org/fr/ bottom of page.
(In reply to Samuel VERSCHELDE from comment #17) > You shouldn't ask when the answer is so easy to find: > http://www.mageia.org/fr/ bottom of page. Sorry, thanks.
So what about mga5 RC?
No response from the last update so presume it's fixed. We can reopen/create new bug for next installer cycle.
Resolution: (none) => FIXEDStatus: NEW => RESOLVED
Hello, I just had this error with Mageia-7.1-i586 DVD a Dell PowerEdge 2950 server. The bios was setup as "Install Mode" "ON".. I switch that to off and everything works great! Regards
CC: (none) => ezequiel_partida