2010/1/28 Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi>: > 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. > I've tried that, If that was the problem, I hadn't asked help to the list :) I've found that it was a misunderstanding between Grub and the filesystem. Target filesystem has inodes of 256 bytes while debian etch version can read inodes of 128 bytes. >> -- >> -- >> Open Kairos http://www.sergiobelkin.com >> Watch More TV http://sebelk.blogspot.com >> Sergio Belkin - >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- -- Open Kairos http://www.sergiobelkin.com Watch More TV http://sebelk.blogspot.com Sergio Belkin -