Timothy Murphy wrote: > I'm taking the liberty of re-posting this query, as there seemed some > problems with the previous posting, hopefully now resolved: > > Has anyone actually succeeded in booting Fedora-12 from the DVD ISO file > on the hard disk, by adding a stanza to grub.conf ? > > I carried out the following commands: ----------------------------- > [tim@alfred ~]$ sudo mkdir /mnt/Fedora [tim@alfred ~]$ sudo mount -o > loop Fedora-12-i386-DVD.iso /mnt/Fedora/ [tim@alfred ~]$ ls > /mnt/Fedora/isolinux/ boot.cat boot.msg grub.conf initrd.img > isolinux.bin isolinux.cfg splash.jpg TRANS.TBL vesamenu.c32 vmlinuz > [tim@alfred ~]$ ls /mnt/Fedora/images/ efiboot.img efidisk.img > install.img pxeboot README TRANS.TBL [tim@alfred ~]$ mkdir images > [tim@alfred ~]$ cp -a /mnt/Fedora/images/install.img images/ [tim@alfred > ~]$ sudo mkdir /boot/Fedora-12 [tim@alfred ~]$ sudo cp -a > /mnt/Fedora/isolinux/* /boot/Fedora-12/ ----------------------------- > > This is the entry I have added to /etc/grub.conf : > ----------------------------- > title Upgrade to Fedora-12 > root (hd0,1) > kernel /Fedora-12/vmlinuz ro > initrd /Fedora-12/initrd.img > ----------------------------- > > Now when I boot into this, all goes well until I try to install from > Fedora-12*.iso when I the error "Device /dev/sda6 does not appear to > contain an installation image". > > Am I doing something wrong? You don't give enough detail. What you have shown I think looks ok (would have to check old notes to be sure) The missing information is just what exactly did you enter into the anaconda gui. I have no f12 experience, but in my successful f11 hard disk install I did this two ways 1) using repo= option in kernel line: #title Install Fedora 11 repo=hd:/dev/sdb1:/root/diso reordr # root ... # kernel /boot/f11/vmlinuz noselinux repo=hd:/dev/sdb1:/root/diso # initrd /boot/f11/initrd.img 2)not using the repo= option #title Install Fedora 11 h NO repo= # root .......... # kernel /boot/f11/vmlinuz noselinux # initrd /boot/f11/initrd.img #here I have to pick /dev/sdb1 and /root/diso for directory you enter these in the anaconda gui. The leading slash "/" in /root/diso is essential. This is documented on the fedora site somewhere; the leading slash requirement started with f10. Are you operating from f11? or earlier? The entire process for hard disk install, including detailed instructions for the images directory, was subject of a long thread Mike Cloaked and Tom Horsley, I think in Nov 2008, including a bugzilla re the leading slash. I don't have that bugzilla ref right now. If my experience is any guide, if you follow the instructions in that ref, it should just work. Jack -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
