[CentOS-virt] Fedora 12 2.6.31.5-127.fc12 domU on CentOS 5.4 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5xen fails to boot

Well, I found the issue.  Anyone care to help me figure out how to get this resolved?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=529846

Charles

On Nov 24, 2009, at 12:57 PM, Tait Clarridge wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 12:47 -0500, Charles J Gruener wrote:
>> I mentioned in a previous post that I specifically call out ext3 as the fstype option for /boot.  To alleviate further confusion, here is my kickstart file.
>> 
>> install
>> cmdline
>> url --url http://mirrors.rit.edu/fedora/linux/releases/12/Fedora/x86_64/os
>> lang en_US.UTF-8
>> keyboard us
>> network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp
>> rootpw ChangeMeNOW!
>> firewall --enabled --port=22:tcp
>> selinux --enforcing
>> timezone --utc America/New_York
>> bootloader --location=mbr
>> reboot
>> clearpart --all --initlabel
>> part /boot --fstype=ext3 --size=256
>> part pv.01 --size=2048 --grow
>> volgroup vg0 pv.01
>> logvol swap --fstype=swap --name=swap --vgname=vg0 --recommended
>> logvol / --fstype=ext3 --name=root --vgname=vg0 --size=1024 --grow
>> 
>> %packages --nobase
>> 
>> If I simply change the url line to be fedora 11 instead of 12, everything works and I can boot.
>> 
>> I decided to look into this a bit further.  After installing and getting the following error:
>> 
>> # pygrub /var/lib/xen/images/fedora12.img 
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "/usr/bin/pygrub", line 677, in ?
>>    fs = fsimage.open(file, get_fs_offset(file))
>> IOError: [Errno 95] Operation not supported
>> 
>> I decided to 100% verify that the filesystem was in fact created as ext3.
>> 
>> # losetup /dev/loop0 /var/lib/xen/images/fedora12.img 
>> # kpartx -a /dev/loop0
>> # mount /dev/mapper/loop0p1 /mnt
>> # mount | grep /dev/mapper/loop0p1
>> /dev/mapper/loop0p1 on /mnt type ext4 (rw)
>> 
>> Wait...what?  But I specified ext3 in the kickstart file...
>> 
>> So how do I get anaconda on Fedora 12 to honor the --fstype=ext3 option for part /boot?  I tried both:
>> 
>> --fstype ext3
>> 
>> and
>> 
>> --fstype=ext3
>> 
>> with the same results.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Charles
> 
> Maybe you could format it ext3 using the /dev/mapper/loop0p1 path above
> and use:
> 
> part /boot --noformat --onpart=/dev/partitionGoesHere
> 
> 
> ?
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