Updated Xen install instructions

Josh Boyer jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Wed Feb 8 00:50:50 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 17:44 -0800, Adam Huda wrote:
> Jeremy,
> 
> I've been following http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ 
> FedoraXenQuickstartFC5. I've booted into the xen hypervisor kernel,  
> but I'm having problems installing a guest os.
> 
> After http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/xenguest-install.py passes  
> control to Anaconda. Anacoda proceeds to download stage2 and when the  
> download completes, I see this error:
> 
>      from booty import *
>    File "/usr/lib/booty/booty.py", line 28, in ?
>      from bootloaderInfo import *
>    File "/usr/lib/booty/bootloaderInfo.py", line 713
>      if grubTarget[-2] == 'p' or
>                                ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> install exited abnormally
> sending termination signals...done
> sending kill signals...done
> disabling swap...
> unmounting filesystems...
>          /mnt/runtime done
>          disabling /dev/loop0
>          /proc done
>          /dev/pts done
>          /sys done
>          /tmp/ramfs done
>          /selinux done
> you may safely reboot your system
> 
> Unfortunately, I can't scroll up to see the start of the output. Any  
> ideas how to work around this?

That's actually a syntax error in booty.  It has nothing to do with xen
itself.  I think it will be fixed tomorrow in rawhide.

josh




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