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From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
To: Gerry Reno <greno@verizon.net>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: KVM-74:  HELP PLEASE - cannot boot from cdrom for recovery
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:10:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49D23255.8090202@wpkg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49D231D0.3040805@verizon.net>

Gerry Reno schrieb:
> Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
>> Gerry Reno schrieb:
>>> Today we upgraded one of our VM's from F9 to F10 and after the first 
>>> reboot we see the dreaded GRUB prompt.  This it turns out is a known 
>>> problem with F10 installs.  And the recovery is usually very simple.  
>>> You boot into rescue mode from CDROM and reinstall the boot loader.  
>>> The problem we're seeing is that even though I select CDROM from the 
>>> boot menu, it will never boot from the CDROM.  It always has an error.
>>
>> What error?
>>
> Boot Failure Code:  0003
> Boot from CDROM failed:  cannot read the boot disk.
> FATAL: No bootable device.
> 
> The host has only a DVD drive and we are using the DVD F10 install disk.
> 
>>
>>> What can we do to get this VM to boot from the CDROM drive so that we 
>>> can install a  new bootloader and recover this VM?
>>
>> What parameters do you use to start the guest?
>>
>>
> I'm using the GUI VMM and selecting Run on that VM.

What is GUI VMM?
Do you know what parameters it passes to kvm binary?


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org


  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-31 15:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-31 14:58 KVM-74: HELP PLEASE - cannot boot from cdrom for recovery Gerry Reno
2009-03-31 15:00 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-03-31 15:08   ` Gerry Reno
2009-03-31 15:10     ` Tomasz Chmielewski [this message]
2009-03-31 15:18       ` Gerry Reno
2009-03-31 15:50         ` Charles Duffy
2009-03-31 15:55           ` Gerry Reno
2009-03-31 16:13             ` Charles Duffy
2009-03-31 17:01               ` Gerry Reno
2009-03-31 17:05                 ` Javier Guerra
2009-03-31 17:22                   ` Gerry Reno
2009-03-31 17:31                     ` Gerry Reno
2009-03-31 18:03                       ` Gerry Reno
2009-03-31 18:05                         ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-03-31 18:22                           ` Gerry Reno
2009-03-31 18:25                             ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-03-31 18:33                               ` Gerry Reno
2009-03-31 18:53                                 ` Gerry Reno
2009-03-31 19:11                                   ` Gerry Reno
2009-03-31 19:12                                   ` Javier Guerra
2009-03-31 19:13                                     ` Gerry Reno
2009-03-31 19:27                                       ` Javier Guerra
2009-03-31 22:52                                         ` Gerry Reno
2009-03-31 22:59                                           ` Javier Guerra
2009-03-31 23:16                                             ` Gerry Reno
2009-03-31 23:33                                               ` Gerry Reno
2009-03-31 23:41                                                 ` Gerry Reno
2009-04-01  0:06                                                 ` Brian Jackson
2009-04-01  0:08                                                 ` Brian Jackson
2009-03-31 17:07                 ` Charles Duffy
2009-03-31 17:10                 ` Tomasz Chmielewski

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