On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 4:48 AM, Pasha R <pashar.ml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Clyde E. Kunkel <clydekunkel7734@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> Pasha R wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Did anyone try to install F11 Alpha as VirtualBox guest? Whenever I >>> try, installation goes fine, but the system won't boot, saying it >>> can't find /dev/root. It looks like installer sets wrong UUID of the >>> root partition in grub.conf. After I set the correct UUID, system >>> still wouldn't boot, with different message. >>> >> >> UUID boot is broken. Instead use direct device name in grub, i.e., >> root=/dev/foo. >> >> See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480667 >> > > It's not broken in VMware. I'll try to do it with direct device name, though. > I've just been bit by the same bug, and yes, using the device name and then regenerating initrd lets Rawhide to boot as a VirtualBox guest. Unfortunately it (for some reason) is very slow, especially for any graphical operation. I'm reduced to only using it to verify that my packages work in Rawhide. Also reported by someone else on the upstream forums: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?p=56614&sid=3e9e214ffa5fbde6754158f910393cc0 -- miʃel salim • http://hircus.jaiku.com/ IUCS • msalim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora • salimma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx MacPorts • hircus@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
