Re: help installing f16

2012-04-22 Thread Mike Chambers
On Sat, 2012-04-21 at 12:02 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: > Created 10g mount point / ext4 and 1g swap. Press . > "Partitioning Errors. You have not created a bootloader stage 1 target > device". Just peachy. What does it want? Where is that done? Tried > adding a /boot partition that will n

Re: help installing f16

2012-04-21 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 21 Apr 2012, Mike Wright wrote: It is not a vm taking down the host. It is I who must shutdown every vm in order to boot onto "bare metal" without a hypervisor. That is required because livecd technology will not install into a virtual machine. The only way I know to install into a

Re: help installing f16

2012-04-21 Thread Mike Wright
On 04/21/2012 12:39 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 21.04.2012 21:15, schrieb Mike Wright: On 04/21/2012 12:06 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 21.04.2012 21:02, schrieb Mike Wright: i have not tried but how should the "live cd technology" even know that it runs in a VM? I can't speak with auth

Re: help installing f16

2012-04-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.04.2012 21:15, schrieb Mike Wright: > On 04/21/2012 12:06 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> >> Am 21.04.2012 21:02, schrieb Mike Wright: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I downloaded the f16 install DVD (6.5 hours) and have been trying to >>> install it to an lvm partition that is part of >>> a Xen box.

Re: help installing f16

2012-04-21 Thread Mike Wright
On 04/21/2012 12:06 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 21.04.2012 21:02, schrieb Mike Wright: Hi all, I downloaded the f16 install DVD (6.5 hours) and have been trying to install it to an lvm partition that is part of a Xen box. Two days later I'm asking for help. Hope this doesn't sound like a r

Re: help installing f16 -> bott with "noefi" / "nogpt"

2012-04-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.04.2012 21:02, schrieb Mike Wright: > Created 10g mount point / ext4 and 1g swap. Press . "Partitioning > Errors. You have not created a bootloader > stage 1 target device". Just peachy. What does it want? Where is that > done? Tried adding a /boot partition that > will never be use

Re: help installing f16

2012-04-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.04.2012 21:02, schrieb Mike Wright: > Hi all, > > I downloaded the f16 install DVD (6.5 hours) and have been trying to install > it to an lvm partition that is part of > a Xen box. Two days later I'm asking for help. > > Hope this doesn't sound like a rant but I'm very frustrated. This

help installing f16

2012-04-21 Thread Mike Wright
Hi all, I downloaded the f16 install DVD (6.5 hours) and have been trying to install it to an lvm partition that is part of a Xen box. Two days later I'm asking for help. Hope this doesn't sound like a rant but I'm very frustrated. This is a description of what I've been going through with