Ditto on my end - I tried both with the same results you mention... On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Norman Gaywood wrote: > On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 07:20:05PM -0500, S.Tindall wrote: >> On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 18:56 -0500, 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 > >> There are a bunch of grub2-related issues associated with F16 anaconda >> and one of the easiest ways to deal with them is to use gpt. There is a >> nogpt kernel option that may help, but I have not tried it. > > Yes, GPT is the default for F16 so it is easier just to go with it. I > have tried the nogpt option and F16 installs OK (as it does without > it). However it still can't boot: > > [root at dom0 ~]# sfdisk -d /dev/VM/f16 > # partition table of /dev/VM/f16 > unit: sectors > > /dev/VM/f161 : start= 2048, size= 1024000, Id=83, bootable > /dev/VM/f162 : start= 1026048, size= 40916992, Id=8e > /dev/VM/f163 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0 > /dev/VM/f164 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0 > [root at dom0 ~]# pygrub -i /dev/VM/f16 > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/pygrub", line 691, in ? > chosencfg = run_grub(file, entry, fs) > File "/usr/bin/pygrub", line 545, in run_grub > g = Grub(file, fs) > File "/usr/bin/pygrub", line 203, in __init__ > self.read_config(file, fs) > File "/usr/bin/pygrub", line 402, in read_config > if self.cf.filename is None: > AttributeError: Grub instance has no attribute 'cf' > > The error is in the parsing of the grub2 config I believe. > > -- > Norman Gaywood, Computer Systems Officer > University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia > > ngaywood at une.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 3337 > http://mcs.une.edu.au/~norm Fax: +61 (0)2 6773 3312 > > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > Scot P. Floess RHCT (Certificate Number 605010084735240) Chief Architect FlossWare http://sourceforge.net/projects/flossware http://flossware.sourceforge.net https://github.com/organizations/FlossWare