[Thincrust-devel] Issues creating RHEL5 appliance

[Bryan Kearney]

David:

Was there any movement in getting Apevecs stuff put into EPEL?

-- bk

Ian Wilson wrote:
> I'm having some issues getting the appliance-creator to work on RHEL5.
>  It downloads all of the packages, and then gets to this part and
> fails;  I'm not sure if this is a kickstart problem, or an
> appliance-creator issue:
> 
>     GNU GRUB  version 0.97  (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
> 
>  [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.  For the first word, TAB
>    lists possible command completions.  Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
>    completions of a device/filename.]
> grub> device (hd0) /dev/loop2
> grub> root (hd0,1)
> 
> Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS
> grub> setup --stage2=/var/tmp/imgcreate-n8Tyne/install_root/boot/grub/stage2
> --prefix=/grub  (hd0)
> 
> Error 12: Invalid device requested
> grub> quit
> Finished
> 
> 
> When I go and load the resulting image into the Virtual machine
> Manager, I am greeted with the qemu screen, and grub never loads or
> starts the kernel.  I think I have my kickstart files defined
> correctly;  I've attached a kickstart file that seems to replicate
> this as well, along with the logs of running the appliance-creator
> with the kickstart file in question.
> 
> Please let me know if you need any additional information;  also,
> please feel free to point me in the direction of the documentation (I
> didn't see anything) or to the code if it's a simple problem.
> 
> Thanks;
> 
> Ian
> 
> 
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