FC6 t2 rescue mode problems

[Will Woods]

Hi! First, let me say "Thanks!" for trying out one of the test releases.
We really appreciate the help. You might want to check out the FC6t2
test status page - that's the main place we're trying to track what
works and what doesn't.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/FC6Test2TreeTesting


On Sun, 2006-08-13 at 21:51 +0100, bloch at verdurin.com wrote:
> Owing to the problem listed in bug 202139, I am unable to boot my laptop
> with the current test2 installation.  I've been trying to use rescue
> mode to install a non-Xen kernel.

Ick. I'll add 202139 to the list.

> The first problem I noticed was that bringing up a network interface did
> not work - /usr/bin/ifconfig was not found.

This is a known bug (#201372). It's already fixed in rawhide, so this
will be gone in Test3.

> The second problem was that installing the kernel once chrooted into the
> installed system did not work - there was a complaint about not being
> able to find /mnt/sysimage/var/lib/rpm/Basenames, even though that file
> is present.

Weird. Have you filed a bug about this? I'll investigate it either way
but I'd like to have a bug number to track this problem.

> The third problem was that I tried to get around this by installing the
> kernel manually.  When I tried using mkinitrd, there was an error,
> complaining that /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions was not found.  I didn't
> really expect mkinitrd to work, but I doubt it should have this error.

Was the file present? Are you sure the chroot was OK? 

-w
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