On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 07:20:05PM -0500, S.Tindall wrote: > On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 18:56 -0500, R P Herrold wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Norman Gaywood wrote: > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=746602 > > > (pygrub cannot start F16 PV guests (GPT partition) under Xen 4.1.1) > > why would one use GPT for a domU? seems like gross overkill > There are a bunch of grub2-related issues associated with F16 anaconda > and one of the easiest ways to deal with them is to use gpt. There is a > nogpt kernel option that may help, but I have not tried it. Yes, GPT is the default for F16 so it is easier just to go with it. I have tried the nogpt option and F16 installs OK (as it does without it). However it still can't boot: [root@dom0 ~]# sfdisk -d /dev/VM/f16 # partition table of /dev/VM/f16 unit: sectors /dev/VM/f161 : start= 2048, size= 1024000, Id=83, bootable /dev/VM/f162 : start= 1026048, size= 40916992, Id=8e /dev/VM/f163 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0 /dev/VM/f164 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0 [root@dom0 ~]# pygrub -i /dev/VM/f16 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pygrub", line 691, in ? chosencfg = run_grub(file, entry, fs) File "/usr/bin/pygrub", line 545, in run_grub g = Grub(file, fs) File "/usr/bin/pygrub", line 203, in __init__ self.read_config(file, fs) File "/usr/bin/pygrub", line 402, in read_config if self.cf.filename is None: AttributeError: Grub instance has no attribute 'cf' The error is in the parsing of the grub2 config I believe. -- Norman Gaywood, Computer Systems Officer University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia ngaywood@xxxxxxxxxx Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 3337 http://mcs.une.edu.au/~norm Fax: +61 (0)2 6773 3312 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
