On Mon, 9 Jan 2012, R P Herrold wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Norman Gaywood wrote: > >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=746602 >> >> (pygrub cannot start F16 PV guests (GPT partition) under Xen 4.1.1) > > why would one use GPT for a domU? seems like gross overkill ... following on myself, I moved a F15 box to F16 trivially just now at PMman, with grub2 in place and the full boat SELinux, running recovery backups, and so forth I understand the desire to do native installs of domU's, but if the goal is not to test the installer, but rather to have a F16 environment to run in, F16 is readily available, and it took what? a bit under a half an hour from a standing start to all done, not even pushing hard I'll be at Fedora's FudCon in Blacksburg this weekend, if anyone wants to stop up, say 'Hi, and try it themselves in the PMman environment, as I can clone and hand off a copy of that machine at will; I'll tear off a x64_64 box as well -- Russ herrold [log file is in reverse cronological sequence] 2012-01-10 04:07:09 Backup Management herrold at owlriver.com VM userbackup has been renamed: F16 post panel backup (120) 2012-01-10 04:06:36 Support Message herrold at owlriver.com Subject: post second backup herrold at 2009-windows-7 ~/.ssh $ ssh -i f16 -l root 198.178.231.162 Last login: Tue Jan 10 09:04:19 2012 from cpe-75-180-54-15.columbus.res.rr.com [root at none ~]# date Tue Jan 10 09:06:17 EST 2012 [root at none ~]# T (1) 2012-01-10 04:06:01 VM State Change herrold at owlriver.com VM state has changed to Starting 2012-01-10 04:05:54 VM Management herrold at owlriver.com VM was issued a START command 2012-01-10 04:05:53 Backup Management herrold at owlriver.com VM backup is requesting the VM startup 2012-01-10 04:05:52 Backup Management herrold at owlriver.com User VM backup has completed: vm_54818_1326186306 2012-01-10 04:05:07 Backup Management herrold at owlriver.com User VM backup has been initiated: vm_54818_1326186306 2012-01-10 04:04:48 VM State Change herrold at owlriver.com VM state has changed to Stopping 2012-01-10 04:04:46 VM Management herrold at owlriver.com VM was issued a STOP command 2012-01-10 04:04:45 Backup Management herrold at owlriver.com VM backup is requesting the VM shutdown 2012-01-10 04:04:44 Backup Management herrold at owlriver.com VM backup has been ordered 2012-01-10 04:04:03 Backup Management herrold at owlriver.com VM userbackup has been renamed: F16 but pre-panel yum run (119) 2012-01-10 04:02:45 VM Management herrold at owlriver.com Yum update has been initiated on the VM: 75.180.54.15 2012-01-10 04:02:43 VM Management herrold at owlriver.com Yum was requested through the control panel: 75.180.54.15 2012-01-10 04:01:59 VM State Change herrold at owlriver.com VM state has changed to Starting 2012-01-10 04:01:52 VM Management herrold at owlriver.com VM was issued a START command 2012-01-10 04:01:51 Backup Management herrold at owlriver.com VM backup is requesting the VM startup 2012-01-10 04:01:50 Backup Management herrold at owlriver.com User VM backup has completed: vm_54818_1326185950 2012-01-10 03:59:11 Backup Management herrold at owlriver.com User VM backup has been initiated: vm_54818_1326185950 2012-01-10 03:58:52 VM State Change herrold at owlriver.com VM state has changed to Stopping 2012-01-10 03:58:50 VM Management herrold at owlriver.com VM was issued a STOP command 2012-01-10 03:58:49 Backup Management herrold at owlriver.com VM backup is requesting the VM shutdown 2012-01-10 03:58:43 Backup Management herrold at owlriver.com VM backup has been ordered 2012-01-10 03:57:56 VM Management herrold at owlriver.com VM friendly name has changed: F16 i386 2012-01-10 03:57:23 Support Message herrold at owlriver.com Subject: more of the fstab # /dev/xvda1 / ext4 defaults 1 1 /dev/xvda2 swap swap defaults 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults T (2) 2012-01-10 03:57:03 Support Message herrold at owlriver.com Subject: fstab [root at none ~]# cat /etc/fstab # # /etc/fstab # Created by anaconda on Sun Oct 9 21:31:47 2011 # # Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk' # See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) T (2) 2012-01-10 03:56:17 Support Message herrold at owlriver.com Subject: rest of the paste 20:10:09 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [root at none ~]# date Tue Jan 10 08:55:28 EST 2012 [root at none ~]# T (2) 2012-01-10 03:55:44 Support Message herrold at owlriver.com Subject: and we're back herrold at 2009-windows-7 ~/.ssh $ ssh -i f16 -l root 198.178.231.162 Last login: Tue Jan 10 08:31:38 2012 from cpe-75-180-54-15.columbus.res.rr.com [root at none ~]# uname -a Linux none 3.1.7-1.fc16.i686.PAE #1 SMP Tue Jan 3 20:10: T (2) 2012-01-10 03:55:13 Support Message herrold at owlriver.com Subject: reboot delay [root@(none) ~]# reboot (from another box, watch it) [herrold at bronson rc.d]$ ping 198.178.231.162 PING 198.178.231.162 (198.178.231.162) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 198.178.231.162: icmp_seq=80 ttl=64 time=1.61 ms 64 T (2) 2012-01-10 03:52:35 Support Message herrold at owlriver.com Subject: truncation issue clean all 6 yum upgrade 7 sync 8 yum clean all 9 yum upgrade 10 touch /.autorelabel 11 history [root@(none) ~]# T (2) 2012-01-10 03:52:16 Support Message herrold at owlriver.com Subject: so just before the reboot [root@(none) ~]# history 1 ifconfig 2 rpm -U http://mirror.umd.edu/fedora/linux/releases/16/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-16-1.noarch.rpm 3 yum upgrade rpm 4 yum upgrade python 5 yu T (2) 2012-01-10 03:46:59 Support Message herrold at owlriver.com Subject: I see a bootloader replacement on the box Erasing : 1:grub-0.97-71.fc15.i686 T (2) 2012-01-10 03:45:51 Support Message herrold at owlriver.com Subject: note typo at 2012-01-10 03:33:37 this was actually: yum upgrade rpm first T (2) 2012-01-10 03:33:37 Support Message herrold at owlriver.com Subject: [root@(none) ~]# rpm -U http://mirror.umd.edu/fedora/linux/releases/16/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-16-1.noarch.rpm warning: /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.uVjdEE: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID a82ba4b7: NOKEY [root@(none) ~]# yum upgrade T (2) 2012-01-10 03:32:53 Support Message herrold at owlriver.com Subject: on the box herrold at 2009-windows-7 ~ $ cd .ssh; ssh-keygen -t dsa -f f16 (inject) herrold at 2009-windows-7 ~/.ssh $ ssh -i f16 -l root 198.178.231.162 The authenticity of host '198.178.231.162 (198.178.231.162)' can't be established. RSA T (2) 2012-01-10 03:30:46 VM Management herrold at owlriver.com Initiating user requested SSH key injection [75.180.54.15] 2012-01-10 03:28:50 Support Message herrold at owlriver.com Subject: f-release is: http://mirror.umd.edu/fedora/linux/releases/16/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-16-1.noarch.rpm T (3) 2012-01-10 03:28:03 Support Message herrold at owlriver.com Subject: migrate http://mirror.umd.edu/fedora/linux/releases/16/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/ T (3) 2012-01-10 03:26:24 VM Created herrold at owlriver.com VM XML config has been (re)created 2012-01-10 03:26:23 VM Created herrold at owlriver.com Initial cost of VM is 2000 points 2012-01-10 03:26:22 VM Created herrold at owlriver.com Configuring new VM using disk image 'Fedora 15 i386' with the following configs: vm_factor = 1, vm_mem_f = 0, vm_hd_f = 0, vm_bw_f = 0, vm_properties = para_virt,32bit,xen