We have been seeing some wierdness in SLF5.4's virt-install in the
last couple days too, trying to install SLF5.4/x86_64 paravirt machines.
I think I'm on to something and will try it and post if it works.

Steve


On Thu, 25 Feb 2010, Stephan Wiesand wrote:

> Hi Troy & Connie,
>
> paravirt installs of 4.8/64 are broken. The installer claims that the boot media do not match the install tree. The .buildstamp in 4.8/x86_64images/xen/initrd.img looks like this:
>
> 200906191446
> Scientific Linux
> 48
> SL
>
> while in images/SL/pxeboot it's
>
> 200907070939
> Scientific Linux
> 48
> SL
>
> I tried to modify the timestamp, which makes it possible to start the installation with that image, but then it fails with other weird errors (not enough space on /).
>
> Do you have a working initrd for xen pv installs around?
>
> Thanks,
> 	Stephan
>
>

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