Description of problem: When trying to install 11-Preview in KVM virtual machine using PXE, GRUB is not correctly installed. My system only says: Booting from Hard Disk... then only eats my processor time. No GRUB prompt or something similar. When trying to do same on 11-Beta, it works, just for 11-Preview not. What changed on 11-Preview? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Virtually installed: 11-Preview On Fedora 10 stable with these virt components: [ondrejj work ~]$ rpm -qa \*virt\* gtk-vnc qemu\* \*kvm\* | sort etherboot-roms-kvm-5.4.4-13.fc11.noarch etherboot-zroms-kvm-5.4.4-13.fc11.noarch gtk-vnc-0.3.8-8.fc11.i586 libvirt-python-0.6.1-1.fc10.i386 libvirt-0.6.1-1.fc10.i386 python-virtinst-0.400.3-3.fc10.noarch python-virtualenv-1.3.2-1.fc10.noarch qemu-common-0.10-12.fc11.i586 qemu-img-0.10-12.fc11.i586 qemu-system-arm-0.10-12.fc11.i586 qemu-system-cris-0.10-12.fc11.i586 qemu-system-mips-0.10-12.fc11.i586 qemu-system-m68k-0.10-12.fc11.i586 qemu-system-ppc-0.10-12.fc11.i586 qemu-system-sh4-0.10-12.fc11.i586 qemu-system-sparc-0.10-12.fc11.i586 qemu-system-x86-0.10-12.fc11.i586 qemu-user-0.10-12.fc11.i586 qemu-0.10-12.fc11.i586 virt-df-2.1.5-1.fc10.i386 virt-manager-0.7.0-4.fc10.i386 virt-mem-0.2.9-6.fc10.i386 virt-top-1.0.3-2.fc10.i386 virt-viewer-0.0.3-3.fc10.i386 How reproducible: always for me Steps to Reproduce: 1. create a new virtual machine, set OS to Fedora 11 (use paravirtualized disk driver) 2. boot Fedora11-Preview from PXE and install 3. try to boot Actual results: Booting from Hard Disk... Expected results: GRUB ... Additional info: More information in this thread: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-April/msg00269.html Trying to fix GRUB by running some commands suggested by markmc: sh-4.0# chroot /mnt/sysimage/ sh-4.0# grub --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map 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> root (hd0,0) root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 grub> setup --prefix=/grub (hd0) setup --prefix=/grub (hd0) Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... yes Checking if "/grub/stage2" exists... yes Checking if "/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... failed (this is not fatal) Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0,0)"... failed (this is not fatal) Running "install /grub/stage1 (hd0) /grub/stage2 p /grub/grub.conf "... succeeded Done. But this is without success. Last messages from /var/log/program.log: This filesystem will be automatically checked every 37 mounts or 180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override. Running... ['udevadm', 'settle'] Running... ['udevadm', 'settle', '--timeout=10'] Running... ['lvm', 'lvcreate', '-L', '2016m', '-n', 'lv_swap', 'VolGroup'] Logical volume "lv_swap" created Running... ['udevadm', 'settle', '--timeout=10'] Running... ['udevadm', 'settle'] Running... ['mkswap', '/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_swap'] Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 2064380 KiB no label, UUID=6af88756-9d8c-4275-8a30-aa511c7378fd Running... ['udevadm', 'settle'] Running... ['udevadm', 'settle', '--timeout=10'] Running... ['udevadm', 'settle'] Running... ['swapon', '/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_swap'] Running... ['/usr/sbin/authconfig', '--update', '--nostart', '--useshadow', '--enablemd5'] authconfig: Authentication module /lib/security/pam_fprintd.so is missing. Authentication process will not work correctly. authconfig: Authentication module /lib/security/pam_pkcs11.so is missing. Authentication process will not work correctly. Running... ['/usr/sbin/lokkit', '--quiet', '--nostart', '-f', '--service=ssh', '--port=ssh:tcp'] Running... ['/usr/sbin/lokkit', '--quiet', '--nostart', '--selinux=permissive'] Running... ['/sbin/grub-install', '--just-copy'] Running... ['/sbin/grub', '--batch', '--no-floppy', '--device-map=/boot/grub/device.map']
The summary here is: - Using qemu-kvm from f11 - Newly installed F11 Beta guest boots fine - Newly installed F11 Preview guest doesn't get to bootloader Jan, could you confirm that is the case? e.g. was the f11 beta guest installed using the same qemu-kvm, host kernel, guest config and kickstart?
I can't reproduce this with my current packages. My qemu has been downgraded to fedora-10 latest stable release. My current packages: [ondrejj@work ~]$ rpm -qa \*virt\* gtk-vnc qemu\* \*kvm\* | sort etherboot-roms-kvm-5.4.4-4.fc10.i386 gtk-vnc-0.3.8-8.fc11.i586 kvm-74-10.fc10.i386 libvirt-python-0.6.1-1.fc10.i386 libvirt-0.6.1-1.fc10.i386 python-virtinst-0.400.3-3.fc10.noarch python-virtualenv-1.3.2-1.fc10.noarch qemu-img-0.9.1-12.fc10.i386 qemu-0.9.1-12.fc10.i386 virt-df-2.1.5-1.fc10.i386 virt-manager-0.7.0-4.fc10.i386 virt-mem-0.2.9-6.fc10.i386 virt-top-1.0.3-2.fc10.i386 virt-viewer-0.0.3-3.fc10.i386 [ondrejj@work ~]$
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
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