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
next prev parent 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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