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Fedora 11 - could not start boot splash: No such file or directory



Um, the Fedora-11-i386-DVD.iso is 3.5 GB, and a DVD can hold 4.4 GB.



On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Jarod Wilson<jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Jun 12, 2009, at 5:50 PM, John Abreau wrote:
>
>> Whatever happened to boot.iso? ?I typically mount the DVD
>> iso image under /var/www/html, then burn /images/boot.iso
>> to a CD and do a network install. ?But when I mount the
>> Fedora 11 DVD and look in the /images direftory, it doesn't
>> show a boot.iso.
>
> That was included on the DVD iso?!?
>
> It does still exist, of course:
>
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/x86_64/os/images/boot.iso
>
> If it was once on the DVD iso, I'd imagine it may have been removed
> for space considerations. The distro is far larger than a single DVD,
> so space on it is precious, and boot.iso has grown a bit over the
> years -- its now boot.iso, netinst.iso and rescue.iso all in one, with
> the anaconda stage2 image included in it.
>
>
>
>> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Jarod Wilson<jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org>
>> wrote:
>>> On Jun 11, 2009, at 4:42 PM, Randy Cole wrote:
>>>
>>>> Getting this error during the boot process immediately after the
>>>> ext4
>>>> filesystem is mounted. ?Google has been unhelpful. ?Note, the
>>>> install
>>>> froze on package 1663 of 1663 (both times I tried it), and I shut
>>>> down
>>>>
>>>> /var/log/messages is empty.
>>>
>>> But the system actually boots?
>>>
>>> It sounds like some plymouth component isn't installed, but I dunno
>>> how that would have happened... And the graphical boot stuff should
>>> actually be loaded from the initrd, before any ext4 filesystem is
>>> mounted, so that's even more odd...
>>>
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