[CentOS] Full Virtualized DomU won't boot

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 07:21:54PM -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote:
> Hi, I use Centos 5.4 x86_64
> 
> kernel used is 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5xen
> 
> I have a physical machine running Debian Etch (32 bit) and Debian
> Lenny and I virtualized the first one as follows:
> 
> *Created a HVM DomU with Virt-Manager with a virtual disk file of 40000 M
> *Boot from LiveCD, and created a swap and a ext3 partitions (Yes, very
> simple layout).
> *Rsync'd files from root partition of physical machine to partition
> mounted on LiveCD on DomU.
> *Chrooted and edited files /boot/grub/menu.lst, /etc/fstab, etc/mtab,
> /boot/grub/device.map.
> *Then I rebooted from hard disk and stay freezed with the message
> "booting from hard disk" . But it doesn't boot at all from hard disk.
> 
> I can boot using grub-rescue-cdrom, but if I try to install grub with
> grub-install it outputs:
> 
> 
> "The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly"
> 
> (I've tried --recheck option, and depmod and update-grub commands with
> no success)
> 

Well.. stage1 is definitely needed by grub. So grub didn't get installed.
Your domU can't boot then. 

- Do you have the stage1 file there? 
- Was the partition layout the same for the old server? 
- Is the grub.conf "root (hd0,X)" correct for the new disk? 

You can install grub from grub-shell like this, after chrooting to the filesystem:

# grub
device (hd0) /dev/sda
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)

replace "hd0,0" with the correct partition index.

-- Pasi

> 
> Output of file command on virtual disk file is:
> 
> /virtuales/videodisk.img: x86 boot sector; partition 1: ID=0x82,
> starthead 1, startsector 63, 4273227 sectors; partition 2: ID=0x83,
> active, starthead 0, startsector 4273290, 77626080 sectors
> 
> The DomU file is:
> 
> DomU (file):
> 
> name = "video"
> uuid = "54d25d78-b9d0-0159-542c-bb601cc936bb"
> maxmem = 1024
> memory = 512
> vcpus = 1
> builder = "hvm"
> kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"
> boot = "d"
> pae = 1
> acpi = 1
> apic = 1
> localtime = 0
> on_poweroff = "destroy"
> on_reboot = "restart"
> on_crash = "restart"
> device_model = "/usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm"
> sdl = 0
> vnc = 1
> vncunused = 1
> keymap = "es"
> disk = [ "file:/virtuales/videodisk.img,hda,w",
> "file:/virtuales/isos/grub-rescue-cdrom.iso,hdc:cdrom,r" ]
> vif = [ "mac=00:16:36:0b:24:2d,bridge=xenbr0,script=vif-bridge" ]
> parallel = "none"
> serial = "pty"
> EOF
> 
> 
> 
> With grub-rescue cd DomU can boot but as I've said can't install grub
> and loads also loopback interface.
> 
> 
> Please could you tell me what I am doing wrong?
> 
> Thanks in advance!!
> 
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