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) 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!! -- -- Open Kairos http://www.sergiobelkin.com Watch More TV http://sebelk.blogspot.com Sergio Belkin -