Description of problem: Installation to an image file fails in the end of the installation with warning message: There was an error installing the bootloader. The system may not be bootable. /tmp/program.log ends with: ... 03:48:14,386 INFO program: Running... grub2-install --no-floppy /dev/mapper/disk 03:48:15,566 ERR program: /usr/sbin/grub2-bios-setup: error: unable to identify a filesystem in hostdisk//dev/loop0; safety check can't be performed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): F17 GA grub2-2.0-0.25.beta4.fc17 anaconda-17.29-1.fc17 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install F17 2. in the installed system, create an image file: dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/disk.img bs=1M count=1 seek=8096 3. use anaconda to install to the image file: anaconda -G --image=/root/disk.img --repo=http://... 4. create /boot, rootfs and swap as raw partitions (no LVM/RAID) 5. finish the installation Actual results: Error installing bootloader. Qemu hangs while "Booting from Hard Disk..." (command: qemu-kvm -hda /root/disk.img -m 1G), Expected results: Bootloader is successfully written
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