libvirt users - Apr 2014 - Re: "virt-install" source location boot disk

Hi Giuseppe and thanks for the response............ Heres some more info:


Here is my kickstart... maybe the "--bootloader" argument is wrong in
some
way?

# Put this in pastebin or some other public url
# Kickstart file automatically generated by anaconda.

#version=DEVEL
install
cdrom
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
network --onboot yes --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp --noipv6
timezone --utc America/New_York
rootpw  --iscrypted
$6$9bRPXTZZMy0FNl2A$lgY.MS3pZ.0PVg4o3AQeJOydPwGVphdKT07tHlJUmdoRTz4UQQ/L54ny0QHkdubMquqkr4jw37DxmM0FL5kRn1
selinux --enforcing
authconfig --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512
firewall --service=ssh


#Disable graphical stuff
skipx
#text

# The following is the partition information you requested
# Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed
# here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is
# not guaranteed to work
# Uncommented by j
zerombr
clearpart --all
autopart
#ip=192.168.122.99
network --bootproto=static --ip=192.168.122.100
--netmask=255.255.255.0 --gateway=192.168.122.1
--nameserver=192.168.122.1
bootloader --location=mbr --timeout=5 --append="rhgb quiet"
....
%end


Some more details:  This is what my "df" output is

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root
                      26552588   2244364  22959412   9% /
tmpfs                  1978444         0   1978444   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1               495844     33710    436534   8% /boot



On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 4:02 AM, Giuseppe Scrivano
<gscrivan@redhat.com>wrote:
> Jay Vyas <jayunit100@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi virt, im stumped... any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > I normally create my VMs like this:
> >
> >
base="http://mirror.pnl.gov/fedora/linux/releases/20/Fedora/x86_64/os/"
> >
> > sudo virt-install --hvm --name $vm_name$i --ram 4000 \
> > --disk path=/VirtualMachines/$vm_name$i,size=30 \
> > --location $base -x  "ks=http://xxx.os21.ks$kx"
> >
> > HOWEVER... I'm finding that my VMs dont boot after i restart the
Host.
> >
> > My question is:  Where is virt-install writing the boot disk to?
>
> I don't see anything wrong in your command line and it should just
work.
>
> How does your kickstart file look like?  And your domain XML definition
> (you can get it with "virsh dumpxml $vm_name$i")?
>
> Regards,
> Giuseppe
>


-- 
Jay Vyas
http://jayunit100.blogspot.com

Jay Vyas <jayunit100@gmail.com> writes:
> # The following is the partition information you requested
> # Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed
> # here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is
> # not guaranteed to work
> # Uncommented by j
> zerombr
> clearpart --all
> autopart
> #ip=192.168.122.99 
> network --bootproto=static --ip=192.168.122.100 --netmask=255.255.255.0
--gateway=192.168.122.1 --nameserver=192.168.122.1
> bootloader --location=mbr --timeout=5 --append="rhgb quiet"
> ....
> %end
in the kickstart file generated by libosinfo for Fedora 20
(osinfo-install-script fedora20), I see this line:

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

Could you try adding it to your kickstart file just after "clearpart"?

Giuseppe

Hi Giuseppe... !  Thanks for the hint. ill try it.

 So from the docs, I'm seeing this:

"As of Fedora 16 there must be a biosboot partition for the bootloader to
be installed successfully onto a disk that contains a GPT/GUID partition
table, which includes disks initialized by anaconda. This partition may be
created with the kickstart option part biosboot --fstype=biosboot --size=1.
However, in the case that a disk has an existing biosboot partition, adding
a "part biosboot" option is unnecessary."

So maybe you are suggesting that, the Kickstart file needs to define the
boot info, because im installing from source and not from an ISO ?




On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 5:50 AM, Giuseppe Scrivano
<gscrivan@redhat.com>wrote:
> Jay Vyas <jayunit100@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > # The following is the partition information you requested
> > # Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed
> > # here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is
> > # not guaranteed to work
> > # Uncommented by j
> > zerombr
> > clearpart --all
> > autopart
> > #ip=192.168.122.99
> > network --bootproto=static --ip=192.168.122.100
--netmask=255.255.255.0
> --gateway=192.168.122.1 --nameserver=192.168.122.1
> > bootloader --location=mbr --timeout=5 --append="rhgb quiet"
> > ....
> > %end
>
> in the kickstart file generated by libosinfo for Fedora 20
> (osinfo-install-script fedora20), I see this line:
>
> part biosboot --fstype=biosboot --size=1
>
> Could you try adding it to your kickstart file just after
"clearpart"?
>
> Giuseppe
>


-- 
Jay Vyas
http://jayunit100.blogspot.com