[Cbe-oss-dev] Newbie: which kboot?

[Josh Boyer]

On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:50:16 +0000
David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 12:08 -0500, Robert McGwier wrote:
> > CAVEAT time.  I could NOT install F8 using kboot from the DVD.  It
> > bombs with some weird error which I would repeat if I had time.  I did
> > the "rpm to replace the repository" and yum upgrade.  I had to resolve
> > a couple of small inconsistencies (mostly due to
> > fedora-development.repo insisting on being installed by default and
> > "fc9" stuff getting installed).
> 
> You need to add 'xdriver=fbdev' to the command line when booting the F8
> installer, due to a very broken change which was made between the final
> release candidate and the actual release of F8.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=374201

There was another bug that caused the initrd to not find the root
device because of labels.  So you might have to pass root=/dev/ps3da3
(or whatever your partition is) as well.

josh