Fedora 17 development

[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.

• Selinux isn't being disabled ​​https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=824216

• 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.

[ezyang]

selinux isn't being disabled ​https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=824216

[ezyang]

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