Installation fails: Mountpoint /mnt/media/RPMS doesn't exist

[JanHolger]

I've tried to install photon on a baremetal qemu vm in proxmox but it fails over and over even with different and older iso's. Am i missing something or is this an issue of the install script? I've also set up a dhcp lease to make sure that it's not missing a network connection but this didn't fix it either.

/var/log/installer.log:

2020-10-05 22:21:37,680 - Starting Log
2020-10-05 22:21:37,680 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
2020-10-05 22:22:38,088 - ['sgdisk', '-o', '-g', '/dev/sda']
2020-10-05 22:22:39,131 - Creating new GPT entries in memory.
The operation has completed successfully.

2020-10-05 22:22:39,131 - ['sgdisk', '-n1::+4M', '-t1:ef02', '-n2::+10M', '-t2:ef00', '-n3', '-t3:8300', '-p', '/dev/sda']
2020-10-05 22:22:40,149 - Disk /dev/sda: 20971520 sectors, 10.0 GiB
Model: QEMU HARDDISK   
Sector size (logical/physical): 512/512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 3CD780AB-67A6-4F2E-9445-87B48CC01344
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
Main partition table begins at sector 2 and ends at sector 33
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 20971486
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 2014 sectors (1007.0 KiB)

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1            2048           10239   4.0 MiB     EF02  
   2           10240           30719   10.0 MiB    EF00  
   3           30720        20971486   10.0 GiB    8300  
The operation has completed successfully.

2020-10-05 22:22:40,149 - [{'size': 4, 'filesystem': 'bios', 'path': '/dev/sda1'}, {'mountpoint': '/', 'size': 0, 'filesystem': 'ext4', 'path': '/dev/sda3'}, {'size': 10, 'filesystem': 'vfat', 'mountpoint': '/boot/efi', 'path': '/dev/sda2'}]
2020-10-05 22:22:40,149 - ['mkfs', '-t', 'ext4', '/dev/sda3']
2020-10-05 22:22:40,511 - Discarding device blocks:    4096/2617595���������������               ���������������done                            
Creating filesystem with 2617595 4k blocks and 655360 inodes
Filesystem UUID: e521e0dc-6ad7-4fa3-be6b-64d566552ae4
Superblock backups stored on blocks: 
	32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632

Allocating group tables:  0/80�����     �����done                            
Writing inode tables:  0/80�����     �����done                            
Creating journal (16384 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information:  0/80�����     �����done


2020-10-05 22:22:40,512 - ['mkfs', '-t', 'vfat', '/dev/sda2']
2020-10-05 22:22:40,524 - mkfs.fat 4.1 (2017-01-24)

2020-10-05 22:22:40,525 - ['mkdir', '-p', '/mnt/photon-root/photon-chroot/']
2020-10-05 22:22:40,535 - ['mount', '-v', '/dev/sda3', '/mnt/photon-root/photon-chroot/']
2020-10-05 22:22:40,561 - mount: /dev/sda3 mounted on /mnt/photon-root/photon-chroot.

2020-10-05 22:22:40,562 - ['mkdir', '-p', '/mnt/photon-root/photon-chroot/boot/efi']
2020-10-05 22:22:40,566 - ['mount', '-v', '/dev/sda2', '/mnt/photon-root/photon-chroot/boot/efi']
2020-10-05 22:22:40,589 - mount: /dev/sda2 mounted on /mnt/photon-root/photon-chroot/boot/efi.

2020-10-05 22:22:40,590 - ['mkdir', '-p', '/mnt/photon-root/photon-chroot/installer']
2020-10-05 22:22:40,593 - ['mount', '--bind', '/installer', '/mnt/photon-root/photon-chroot/installer']
2020-10-05 22:22:40,602 - ['mkdir', '-p', '/mnt/photon-root/photon-chroot/cache/tdnf/photon-local/rpms']
2020-10-05 22:22:40,605 - ['mount', '--bind', '/mnt/media/RPMS', '/mnt/photon-root/photon-chroot/cache/tdnf/photon-local/rpms']
2020-10-05 22:22:40,608 - Command failed: ['mount', '--bind', '/mnt/media/RPMS', '/mnt/photon-root/photon-chroot/cache/tdnf/photon-local/rpms']
2020-10-05 22:22:40,608 - Error code: 32
2020-10-05 22:22:40,608 - mount: /mnt/photon-root/photon-chroot/cache/tdnf/photon-local/rpms: special device /mnt/media/RPMS does not exist.

2020-10-05 22:22:40,608 - Fail to bind cache rpms
2020-10-05 22:22:42,068 - ['umount', '/mnt/photon-root/photon-chroot/installer']
2020-10-05 22:22:42,075 - ['rm', '-rf', '/mnt/photon-root/photon-chroot/installer']
2020-10-05 22:22:42,078 - ['umount', '/mnt/photon-root/photon-chroot/cache/tdnf/photon-local/rpms']
2020-10-05 22:22:42,080 - Command failed: ['umount', '/mnt/photon-root/photon-chroot/cache/tdnf/photon-local/rpms']
2020-10-05 22:22:42,081 - Error code: 32
2020-10-05 22:22:42,081 - umount: /mnt/photon-root/photon-chroot/cache/tdnf/photon-local/rpms: not mounted.

2020-10-05 22:22:42,081 - Fail to unbind cache rpms
2020-10-05 22:22:42,081 - ['rm', '-rf', '/mnt/photon-root/photon-chroot/cache']
2020-10-05 22:22:42,083 - ['umount', '-l', '/mnt/photon-root/photon-chroot/boot/efi']
2020-10-05 22:22:42,089 - ['umount', '-l', '/mnt/photon-root/photon-chroot/']
2020-10-05 22:22:42,162 - ['sync']```

[dcasota]

Hi, the log file says that at the time of ‘mount —bind’ /mnt/media is not that one with a directory RPMS. Can you check the content of /mnt/media ?

[JanHolger]

I did check if /mnt/media/RPMS exist, but i didn't check /mnt/media before and it actually was kind of my vault. I already had my cloud-init drive attached, so the cloud-init drive got mounted in /mnt/media as it's the first cdrom device. After removing the cloud-init drive the installation went perfectly fine. Thank you really much for giving me the hint!