On 04/12/2012 06:41 AM, David Lehman wrote: > On Wed, 2012-04-11 at 11:08 +0530, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: >>> >>> 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? > > Here's a hint: try this instead of the clearpart and part commands you > used below: > > clearpart --all --initlabel > autopart --type=btrfs Thanks David, that resolved it. True, I was not paying attention to the partition layout. ##################################################################### [root@foobar ~]# df -hT Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs rootfs 16G 818M 13G 6% / devtmpfs devtmpfs 994M 0 994M 0% /dev tmpfs tmpfs 1003M 0 1003M 0% /dev/shm tmpfs tmpfs 1003M 724K 1002M 1% /run /dev/sda4 btrfs 16G 818M 13G 6% / tmpfs tmpfs 1003M 0 1003M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs tmpfs 1003M 0 1003M 0% /media /dev/sda4 btrfs 16G 818M 13G 6% /home /dev/sda2 ext4 497M 48M 425M 11% /boot ##################################################################### [root@foobar ~]# cat /etc/fedora-release ; arch Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle) x86_64 [root@foobar ~]# ##################################################################### Answering my own earlier question, so yes, /boot still needs ext4. Reposting my kickstart: ###################################### 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 --all --initlabel autopart --type=btrfs %packages @core @editors %end ###################################### Also, to fix the serial console line-break issue, I disabled the plymouth service : $ ln -s /dev/null /etc/systemd/system/plymouth-start.service > >> >> >> ==> 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
