Re: KVM-74: HELP PLEASE - cannot boot from cdrom for recovery

Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-03-31T15:00:55Z

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?

> 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?

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Tomasz Chmielewski