[Thincrust-devel] Issues creating RHEL5 appliance
Bryan Kearney
bkearney at redhat.com
Tue Mar 17 13:01:33 UTC 2009
David:
Was there any movement in getting Apevecs stuff put into EPEL?
-- bk
Ian Wilson wrote:
> I'm having some issues getting the appliance-creator to work on RHEL5.
> It downloads all of the packages, and then gets to this part and
> fails; I'm not sure if this is a kickstart problem, or an
> appliance-creator issue:
>
> GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
>
> [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB
> lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
> completions of a device/filename.]
> grub> device (hd0) /dev/loop2
> grub> root (hd0,1)
>
> Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS
> grub> setup --stage2=/var/tmp/imgcreate-n8Tyne/install_root/boot/grub/stage2
> --prefix=/grub (hd0)
>
> Error 12: Invalid device requested
> grub> quit
> Finished
>
>
> When I go and load the resulting image into the Virtual machine
> Manager, I am greeted with the qemu screen, and grub never loads or
> starts the kernel. I think I have my kickstart files defined
> correctly; I've attached a kickstart file that seems to replicate
> this as well, along with the logs of running the appliance-creator
> with the kickstart file in question.
>
> Please let me know if you need any additional information; also,
> please feel free to point me in the direction of the documentation (I
> didn't see anything) or to the code if it's a simple problem.
>
> Thanks;
>
> Ian
>
>
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