[Fedora-livecd-list] liveinst fails after resize of image

[Douglas McClendon]

mdda wrote:
> I have created a new Fedora spin 'EeeDora' specifically for the EeePC.  The
> Live Image boots fine (very fine).  Live install works in manual mode, but
> with a kickstart file (I'd like to make this completely automatic) Anaconda
> goes through the installation (writing packages=100%), but gives an
> exception in the last stages.  This leaves the machine in an unusable state.

Running anaconda with a kickstart from a livecd, is something that I 
haven't tried to use at all, but have been meaning to.  If this doesn't 
get fixed by someone else soon, at some point I'll attempt to recreate 
it, and debug it.

-dmc

> What appears to be happening is that the root fs is not being mounted on
> /mnt/sysimage/ after the resize.  Looking at /dev/sda1, I can see everything
> got installed up to that stage.  
> 
> anaconda None exception report
> Traceback (most recent call first):
>   File "/usr/lib/anaconda/fsset.py", line 1202, in write
>     f = open (prefix + "/etc/fstab", "w")
>   File "/usr/lib/anaconda/livecd.py", line 313, in doPostInstall
>     anaconda.id.fsset.write(anaconda.rootPath)
>   File "/usr/lib/anaconda/backend.py", line 195, in doPostInstall
>     anaconda.backend.doPostInstall(anaconda)
>   File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 203, in moveStep
>     rc = stepFunc(self.anaconda)
>   File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 126, in gotoNext
>     self.moveStep()
>   File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1048, in nextClicked
>     self.anaconda.dispatch.gotoNext()
>   File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 67, in renderCallback
>     self.intf.icw.nextClicked()
>   File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1075, in handleRenderCallback
>     self.currentWindow.renderCallback()
> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/mnt/sysimage/etc/fstab'
> 
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p14207396/error1 error1 
> 
> 
> Just me hacking around... : If I force ext2 partitions to be mounted (by
> jamming isMountable() ) then anaconda gets to complete - but the machine is
> still unbootable because /dev/root doesn't get created/found properly.  
> 
> Can someone shed some light on this?  My knowledge of Python approaches
> zero, so it's tricky to sort this out (particularly since I'm doing this on
> the small keyboard of the Eee, booted on the live image...)
> 
> Thanks
> Martin
> :-)