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[Jeffrey Ollie]

On 3/5/08, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 07:41 -0600, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
>  > Can't install today's rawhide either... I get a kernel oops on vty4
>  > and a message stating "VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev
>  > loop1." This is from booting the netinst.iso just after you enter the
>  > URL to download from and the proxy.
>
> The oops is a lockdep warning.  And from looking at the rest of the
>  messages on tty3, I don't think the loop1 thing is actually a problem.
>  It looks like the problem is in finding the .discinfo and from there
>  continuing on.  Some pretty large changes finally landed yesterday (to
>  help support things like preupgrade) and it looks like this case slipped
>  through the cracks of pre-commit testing.  Things are working if I boot
>  from the kernel and initrd (via pxe or just -kernel and -initrd with
>  qemu).

On tty3 there are these messages:

INFO : transferring http://download.fedora.redhat.com.discinfo to a fd
ERROR: bad HTTP response code:

I'm using "http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/x86_64/os"
as my download URL, with my local proxy configured.

Jeff