F17 & btrfs installation

[hamidou dia]

Hi List, Kashyap

I hit the same error message yesterday when testing F17RC4, when
manually partitionning (though I wasn't issue btrfs).
I got this fixed by creating a bios boot partition

I think that in your case you should try to append the following in your KS file

part biosboot --fstype=biosboot --size=1

Regards

Hamidou Dia

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2012/4/11 Kashyap Chamarthy <kashyapc at fedoraproject.org>:
>
>>
>> I'm going give it a try w/ btrfs partitioning. Meanwhile, I wasn't keeping up. Can someone
>> confirm, does /boot still need to be ext3/ext4 for btrfs to work?
>>
>
>
> Ok, I gave it a try w/ the below command line, and an error "you have not created a
> bootloader stage1 target device. This can happen if there is not enough space on your
> harddrive for your installation"
>
> Really? There is plenty of space on the disk.
>
> Screenshot of the text install error -->
> http://kashyapc.fedorapeople.org/f17-btrfs-install.png
>
> Any hints?
>
>
> ==> virt-install cmdline <==
> #########################################################################################
> $ virt-install --connect=qemu:///system \
>    --network=bridge:br0 \
>    --initrd-inject=./ks-with-btrfs.ks \
>    --extra-args="ks=file:/ks-with-btrfs.ks console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200
> root=live:http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/17-Beta.RC4/Fedora/x86_64/os/LiveOS/squashfs.img"
> \
>    --name=f17t1 \
>    --disk /export/vmimgs/f17t1.img,size=20 \
>    --ram 2048 \
>    --vcpus=2 \
>    --check-cpu \
>    --accelerate \
>    --hvm \
>    --location=http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/17/x86_64/os/ \
>    --nographics
> #########################################################################################
>
> => Contents of my btrfs ks file <=
> #########################################################################################
> $ cat ks-with-btrfs.ks
> ## A minimal fedora kickstart file
>
> install
> text
> lang en_US.UTF-8
> keyboard us
> rootpw testpwd
> firewall --service=ssh
> authconfig --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512
> selinux --enforcing
> timezone --utc Asia/Kolkata
> bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda  --append="rhgb console=tty0
> console=ttyS0,115200 rd_NO_PLYMOUTH"
> zerombr
> clearpart --initlabel
> part /boot --fstype ext4     --size=600
> part /     --fstype btrfs     --size=14000
>
>
> %packages
> @core
> @editors
> %end
> #########################################################################################
>
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> /kashyap
>>>
>>> it was a bit better with live - I was able to play with
>>> filesystems without the installer crashing, however, I could not
>>> install on btrfs as the target filesystem has to match the live
>>> image
>>>
>>> there may have been some fixes since ...
>>>
>>> K.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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