On 08/14/2015 02:48 AM, Kamil Paral wrote:
>> During the boot process it now finds the iso file. I initially had an
>> error in the menu entry.
> Great.
>
>> When it tries to mount the iso the error line is:
>>
>> mount: /run/install/isodir/Fedora-Server-netinst-i386-23_Alpha failed to
>> setup loop device: no such file or directory.
> Try a shorter file name. The .iso suffix is chopped in your error message.
I typed the error and left off the .iso but I renamed the iso to
Fedora.iso anyhow, got the same result.
>
> Maybe also try removing the kickstart file definition from the config for
> now, just to make sure it does not affect it somehow.
Removing the ks reference resulted in the same results.
>> And then displays the error /dev/root does not exist.
> That just says "I couldn't find any partition to mount as the root
> filesystem" (and /dev/root is probably the default value). The root
> partition is in that iso file, but it failed to mount, so there's none.
> This error message is a direct consequence of the previous one.
>
Is there anything else I can try?
Not sure. You can always ask at #anaconda IRC channel or anaconda-devel mailing list:
https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
You can also report a bug against anaconda or dracut in
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/ .