Opened 12 years ago

Closed 12 years ago

#273 closed enhancement (fixed)

Fedora 17 development

Reported by: ezyang Owned by:
Priority: major Milestone: Fedora 17
Component: internals Keywords:
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Description (last modified by ezyang)

Things that have been noticed so far:

  • Fedora switched to GPT partition tables by default; turn it off by passing kernel flag 'nogpt'. This is uncommitted on c-o. Ideally, we should just forgo partition tables altogether, which Mitch claims is not too difficult to do, but which I haven't figured out how yet.
  • Xen needs this patch series http://old-list-archives.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-10/msg01404.html unfortunately they haven't been backported to Xen 4.0 or Xen 4.1 yet. (We specifically need only patches 2, 4 and 5). The pygrub executable patch is fuzzy, but easy to manually apply. Otherwise you won't be able to boot because the bootloader returns no data. Currently c-o has had its pygrub manually patched with these patches; we should talk to backports or package up these changes ourselves. The idea is to just install another pygrub, and then ask Xen to use it instead.
  • F17-Beta is horribly broken. As a result, the installer files downloaded by scripts-server are Wrong, and should be replaced with the copy from development/17, or resolv.conf will be empty during install.

Change History (10)

comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by ezyang

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comment:2 Changed 12 years ago by ezyang

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  • Summary changed from Fedora 16 installation is broken to Fedora 16 Anaconda for Fedora Rawhide (17) is broken

comment:3 Changed 12 years ago by ezyang

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  • Summary changed from Fedora 16 Anaconda for Fedora Rawhide (17) is broken to Fedora 17 development

comment:4 Changed 12 years ago by achernya

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comment:5 Changed 12 years ago by ezyang

comment:6 Changed 12 years ago by ezyang

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comment:7 Changed 12 years ago by achernya

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comment:8 Changed 12 years ago by ezyang

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comment:9 Changed 12 years ago by ezyang

Fedora 17 dev work is complete. pygrub is still broken though, see Ticket #296

comment:10 Changed 12 years ago by ezyang

  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from new to closed
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