[CentOS-virt] Fedora 12 2.6.31.5-127.fc12 domU on CentOS 5.4 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5xen fails to boot

Charles J Gruener cjg9411 at rit.edu
Mon Nov 23 22:51:51 UTC 2009


I've only got the one virtual disk. /boot is on xvda1 with / and swap  
in LVs. The PV is xvda2.

Charles

On Nov 23, 2009, at 4:43 PM, "Andri Möll" <andri at dot.ee> wrote:

> If /boot is on another virtual drive, make sure it's the first one in
> the VM's 'disk' listing (/etc/xen/foo).  I remember reading that Xen
> gives only the first disk to pygrub as an arg.
> /usr/bin/pygrub is a Python script.  Probably printing the 'file'  
> var to
> stderr before the line fsimage.open(file, get_fs_offset(file)) shows
> what it's trying to open.
>
>
> Andri
>
>
> On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 15:59 -0500, Charles J Gruener wrote:
>> I specifically call out to create an ext3 filesystem in the  
>> kickstart file for /boot.  I did neglect to mention that in my  
>> original post.
>>
>> Charles
>>
>> On Nov 23, 2009, at 3:56 PM, Andri Möll wrote:
>>
>>> This looks like your host doesn't support the filesystem your domU's
>>> using.  I think Fedora's on ext4 by default.  One solution is to use
>>> ext2/ext3 for the domU's boot media or partition.
>>>
>>>
>>> Andri
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