On 04/11/2012 12:23 PM, hamidou dia wrote: > Hi List, Kashyap > > I hit the same error message yesterday when testing F17RC4, when > manually partitionning (though I wasn't issue btrfs). > I got this fixed by creating a bios boot partition > > I think that in your case you should try to append the following in your KS file > > part biosboot --fstype=biosboot --size=1 Cool, I'll try that. Were you able to have /boot on btrfs ? or were you running it on ext3/ext4 ? > > Regards > > Hamidou Dia > > --- > > Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers > > 2012/4/11 Kashyap Chamarthy <kashyapc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> >>> >>> I'm going give it a try w/ btrfs partitioning. Meanwhile, I wasn't keeping up. Can someone >>> confirm, does /boot still need to be ext3/ext4 for btrfs to work? >>> >> >> >> Ok, I gave it a try w/ the below command line, and an error "you have not created a >> bootloader stage1 target device. This can happen if there is not enough space on your >> harddrive for your installation" >> >> Really? There is plenty of space on the disk. >> >> Screenshot of the text install error --> >> http://kashyapc.fedorapeople.org/f17-btrfs-install.png >> >> Any hints? >> >> >> ==> virt-install cmdline <== >> ######################################################################################### >> $ virt-install --connect=qemu:///system \ >> --network=bridge:br0 \ >> --initrd-inject=./ks-with-btrfs.ks \ >> --extra-args="ks=file:/ks-with-btrfs.ks console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200 >> root=live:http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/17-Beta.RC4/Fedora/x86_64/os/LiveOS/squashfs.img" >> \ >> --name=f17t1 \ >> --disk /export/vmimgs/f17t1.img,size=20 \ >> --ram 2048 \ >> --vcpus=2 \ >> --check-cpu \ >> --accelerate \ >> --hvm \ >> --location=http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/17/x86_64/os/ \ >> --nographics >> ######################################################################################### >> >> => Contents of my btrfs ks file <= >> ######################################################################################### >> $ cat ks-with-btrfs.ks >> ## A minimal fedora kickstart file >> >> install >> text >> lang en_US.UTF-8 >> keyboard us >> rootpw testpwd >> firewall --service=ssh >> authconfig --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512 >> selinux --enforcing >> timezone --utc Asia/Kolkata >> bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda --append="rhgb console=tty0 >> console=ttyS0,115200 rd_NO_PLYMOUTH" >> zerombr >> clearpart --initlabel >> part /boot --fstype ext4 --size=600 >> part / --fstype btrfs --size=14000 >> >> >> %packages >> @core >> @editors >> %end >> ######################################################################################### >> >> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> /kashyap >>>> >>>> it was a bit better with live - I was able to play with >>>> filesystems without the installer crashing, however, I could not >>>> install on btrfs as the target filesystem has to match the live >>>> image >>>> >>>> there may have been some fixes since ... >>>> >>>> K. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> -- >> test mailing list >> test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> To unsubscribe: >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test