[Fedora-xen] virt-install hangs for fc6,7

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Wed Dec 19 14:59:30 UTC 2007


On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 03:56:37PM +0100, Aleksander Adamowski wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >This is a bug in the F7 install kernel. When running in nographics mode
> >it still sends boot output to the graphical console instead o the text
> >console.
> >
> >Add  '--append console=xvc0' to the virt-install args when doing a 
> >nographics
> >install of Fedora 7.   FC6/F8 get the text mode  stuff right - only F7 is
> >broken in this respect.
> >  
> 
> Couldn't find a bug in Red Hat Bugzilla for this - hasn't this bug been 
> reported yet? I experienced the problem too on Fedora Core 7 on x86_64.

There no point filing a BZ. It is impossible to fix it, since the problem
is in the images/xen/vmlinuz from the master install tree. We never change
the install kernels post-release so there's no way to fix it in F7. The
only option is to append that arg, or use F8 instead.


Dan.
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