[fedora-virt] Fedora11-Preview without GRUB

[Ján ONDREJ (SAL)]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:18:11AM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 11:58 +0200, Ján ONDREJ (SAL) wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> >   after my rawhide installation was corrupted, I planned to install a fresh
> > Fedora11-Preview in virt-manager. Everything worked well, just GRUB has been
> > not installed.
> 
> I think the cause of this was actually a generic grub/anaconda issue -
> I'm sure I've seen other reports of grub failing with F11 virt preview.
> I think it's been known to hang in the "installing bootloader" installer
> step? I can't find any references now, anyone else seen it?

Installation worked well, just after installation an reboot qemu only shows:

Booting from Hard Disk ...

and nothing else. :(

> >  I can't fix this by running some commands in rescue mode.
> > My attempts are here:
> > 
> > sh-4.0# df /boot
> > Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/vda1               198337     13573    174524   8% /boot
> > 
> > My root partition is /dev/vda1, so my root disk is /dev/vda (paravirtualized
> > disk).
> > 
> > sh-4.0# grub-install /dev/vda
> > expr: non-numeric argument
> > /dev/vda1 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive.
> 
> With the fix (i.e. grub-0.97-50.fc11) for:
> 
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/479760

May be this will help, but I can't test it now.

> you need to actually pass it the device map:
> 
>   $> grub --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map

It's not default?

		SAL