Please help smoke test Fedora 11 installation! - dmraid

[Styma, Robert E (Robert)]

I downloaded the Fedora 11 Pre version last night and transferred
the image onto an NFS server.  I then burned the boot.iso from 
the images directory and tried an NFS install on the Dell GX150 I
have for such tests.  The results were more disappointing than
with Fedora 10.

1.  Starting with Fedora 10, the boot.iso disk does not prompt you for
    the install method unless you press the TAB key and add the 
    parameter askmethod to the parameters.  This is not how it is 
    documented and took a while to figure out.  If you just press 
    enter, it goes right to anaconda and says:
    "Local Installation Media Found"
    It then tries to use the boot.iso CD as the install media which
    of course does not work.  The correction is to add the askmethod
    parm to default parameters on the boot.iso image.  Having the
    default action be something that does not work is not good.

2.  This started with the Fedora 11 Pre install.
    The boot.iso image fails to start X on the GX150.  Previous versions
    of Fedora do start the X server.  The card in the GX150 is marked
    Nvidia 180-p0019-0100-A02.  There is also onboard video.  I took the
    card out and the X server did start although the background had
    junk in it.  I don't know what that card is.

3.  On the run with the video card which would not start, it asked me if
    I wanted to try and start VNC so I could use an different machine's
    display to do the install or continue in text mode.  I picked VNC
even
    though it had picked a DHCP address which I did not know (Pick my
own
    address next time).  There were a couple of shutdown messages ending
    with a message that it was safe to reboot my computer.

I created bug 502229 against anaconda-images (best guess)

Bob S
Phoenix, AZ
    


> 
> On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 12:25 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > Hi, everyone! As you no doubt are aware, we're getting close to the
> > final release of Fedora 11. For anyone who has the time, it would be
> > really useful to get some final smoke testing of the 
> installer. If you
> > have some spare time and disk space - either on a real system, or a
> > virtual one - please take an hour or two to run an installation of
> > Rawhide, using the network installation method, and make sure it
> > completes without any really serious problems. We're particularly
> > interested in problems at the partitioning stage, since the storage
> > rewrite was the biggest and most problematic change in the 
> installer for
> > Fedora 11.
> > 
> > Even if you have a slow connection and don't have time to 
> complete the
> > installation, you can get to and through the partitioning stage
> > relatively quickly, and that's very valuable testing (we 
> need to test it
> > on as many different disks, layouts, LVM / RAID setups etc 
> as possible).
> > 
> > If you do encounter any problems, please file a bug, but 
> also mail the
> > list so the bug can be reviewed to see if it should go onto 
> the blocker
> > list for final release. At this point we're mostly looking 
> for really
> > serious stuff, and regressions from the preview release in 
> particular.
> > Official guidance from the Anaconda folks: "Any bugs 
> introduced since
> > F-11-Beta that also are data corrupters, panics, failures 
> to install in
> > "reasonable" configuration"
> > 
> > There's a test matrix on the Wiki where you can report results:
> > 
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_11_RC_Install_Test_Results
> > 
> > It works backwards to most test day setups: instead of you 
> looking at
> > the test cases and picking which to run, you should just 
> run an install,
> > and if you hit problems, look through the list of test 
> cases to figure
> > out which one it's appropriate to send your report to. Hopefully the
> > list of test cases covers all scenarios :)
> 
> Anyone have access to dmraid storage hardware?  I'm interested to know
> how the latest anaconda looks in a dmraid storage setup.
> 
> If you have any experiences to share, please drop them into the wiki
> (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_11_RC_Install_Test_R
> esults#Storage_Devices) under the dmraid test case [1] or 
> feel free to reply here.
> 
> Thanks,
> James
> 
> [1]
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Anaconda_partitioni
> ng_dmraid_rootfs
> 
>