Well, I found the issue. Anyone care to help me figure out how to get this resolved? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=529846 Charles On Nov 24, 2009, at 12:57 PM, Tait Clarridge wrote: > On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 12:47 -0500, Charles J Gruener wrote: >> I mentioned in a previous post that I specifically call out ext3 as the fstype option for /boot. To alleviate further confusion, here is my kickstart file. >> >> install >> cmdline >> url --url http://mirrors.rit.edu/fedora/linux/releases/12/Fedora/x86_64/os >> lang en_US.UTF-8 >> keyboard us >> network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp >> rootpw ChangeMeNOW! >> firewall --enabled --port=22:tcp >> selinux --enforcing >> timezone --utc America/New_York >> bootloader --location=mbr >> reboot >> clearpart --all --initlabel >> part /boot --fstype=ext3 --size=256 >> part pv.01 --size=2048 --grow >> volgroup vg0 pv.01 >> logvol swap --fstype=swap --name=swap --vgname=vg0 --recommended >> logvol / --fstype=ext3 --name=root --vgname=vg0 --size=1024 --grow >> >> %packages --nobase >> >> If I simply change the url line to be fedora 11 instead of 12, everything works and I can boot. >> >> I decided to look into this a bit further. After installing and getting the following error: >> >> # pygrub /var/lib/xen/images/fedora12.img >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "/usr/bin/pygrub", line 677, in ? >> fs = fsimage.open(file, get_fs_offset(file)) >> IOError: [Errno 95] Operation not supported >> >> I decided to 100% verify that the filesystem was in fact created as ext3. >> >> # losetup /dev/loop0 /var/lib/xen/images/fedora12.img >> # kpartx -a /dev/loop0 >> # mount /dev/mapper/loop0p1 /mnt >> # mount | grep /dev/mapper/loop0p1 >> /dev/mapper/loop0p1 on /mnt type ext4 (rw) >> >> Wait...what? But I specified ext3 in the kickstart file... >> >> So how do I get anaconda on Fedora 12 to honor the --fstype=ext3 option for part /boot? I tried both: >> >> --fstype ext3 >> >> and >> >> --fstype=ext3 >> >> with the same results. >> >> Thanks, >> Charles > > Maybe you could format it ext3 using the /dev/mapper/loop0p1 path above > and use: > > part /boot --noformat --onpart=/dev/partitionGoesHere > > > ? > <signature.asc>_______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
