on 05/27/2010 03:16 PM Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 27 May 2010 14:37:29 -0400 > Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > >>> title Fedora 13 install >>> root (hd0,5) >>> kernel /boot/F13vmlinuz ro >> >> This is a rather "bare" kernel line. Compare it to the kernel line from >> F12 above. You probably need to specify at *least* the root= part as >> well for the kernel to find the correct root partition to use when you >> boot. It even shows you this in the example in the comment above that. > > I don't think so, I do hard disk installs from the DVD image all the > time, and that's basically the same thing I do and it works fine. > I usually put the vmlinuz and initrd.img files in a f13/ subdir > rather than renaming them with an f13 prefix, but I don't know why > that would matter. The only kernel option I generally provide > is something like: > > repo=hd:LABEL=CALIBAN:/install-iso/fedora/x86_64/Fedora-13-x86_64-DVD > > so I don't have to tell anaconda manually where the hard disk image > is located. > > That error sounds more like the vmlinuz image is corrupted. You > could try running "file" to ask what it is (I think it should be > an ELF executable?) good point Tom. Thanks to you I discovered that both vmlinuz and initrd.img are of 0 bites. Somehow I managed to copy them that way. Will try to reboot now. -- regards, Oleksandr Korneta I'm running F12 x86_64, should this matter. /The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from./ -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
