[libvirt-users] "virt-install" source location boot disk

Jay Vyas jayunit100 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 22 10:06:58 UTC 2014


and also, while im at it ... one more detail might be interesting:
rebooting the machine works just fine --- only the VMs fail when i reboot
the host.
 any specific thoughts on that ?


On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 5:53 AM, Jay Vyas <jayunit100 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Giuseppe... !  Thanks for the hint. ill try it.
>
>  So from the docs, I'm seeing this:
>
> "As of Fedora 16 there must be a biosboot partition for the bootloader to
> be installed successfully onto a disk that contains a GPT/GUID partition
> table, which includes disks initialized by anaconda. This partition may be
> created with the kickstart option part biosboot --fstype=biosboot --size=1.
> However, in the case that a disk has an existing biosboot partition, adding
> a "part biosboot" option is unnecessary."
>
> So maybe you are suggesting that, the Kickstart file needs to define the
> boot info, because im installing from source and not from an ISO ?
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 5:50 AM, Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan at redhat.com>wrote:
>
>> Jay Vyas <jayunit100 at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > # The following is the partition information you requested
>> > # Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed
>> > # here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is
>> > # not guaranteed to work
>> > # Uncommented by j
>> > zerombr
>> > clearpart --all
>> > autopart
>> > #ip=192.168.122.99
>> > network --bootproto=static --ip=192.168.122.100 --netmask=255.255.255.0
>> --gateway=192.168.122.1 --nameserver=192.168.122.1
>> > bootloader --location=mbr --timeout=5 --append="rhgb quiet"
>> > ....
>> > %end
>>
>> in the kickstart file generated by libosinfo for Fedora 20
>> (osinfo-install-script fedora20), I see this line:
>>
>> part biosboot --fstype=biosboot --size=1
>>
>> Could you try adding it to your kickstart file just after "clearpart"?
>>
>> Giuseppe
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Jay Vyas
> http://jayunit100.blogspot.com
>



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