Hi Scott, Thanks for the info! I'll give that a try.
Cheers, David On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 6:37 AM, Scott Moser <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, David Stainton wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to make a local store AMI from a running instance with >> ami-08f40561 (ubuntu-maverick-10.10-amd64); like this: >> >> ec2-bundle-vol --cert cert-KZR4IXA6BHN3A3PH3ONHLUP5VVSA2M7K.pem >> --privatekey pk-KZR4IXA6BHN3A3PH3ONHLUP5VVSA2M7K.pem -u xxxx-xxxx-xxxx >> ec2-upload-bundle -b my-ami-bucket -m image.manifest.xml -a >> AKIAJMHWTRQLX77IO5JA -s cd/MCdjCzJ/twnRqZgUnge/yY5sptB9T5PKSupX+ >> ec2-register --name my-ami-bucket/my-server my-ami-bucket/image.manifest.xml >> ec2-run-instances ami-xxxxxxxx --key default --instance-type m1.large > > If you have an older version of ec2-bundle-vol, or if you got it from a > location other than the ubuntu archive, then it is likely that you're > running into bug 672986 [1] or 667793 [2]. Until those bugs were fixed > (version 1.3.49953-0ubuntu1.1 in maverick), the kernel would fail to find > the root volume because it was specified with LABEL= or UUID= and those > items were not being copied. > [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ec2-ami-tools/+bug/672986 > [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ec2-ami-tools/+bug/667793 > > You can get the ec2 ami tools from the ubuntu multiverse archive by: > - edit /etc/apt/sources.list and uncomment the 2 lines > deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick multiverse > deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates multiverse > - sudo apt-get update > - sudo apt-get install ec2-api-tools ec2-ami-tools > > Note the warning in the top of that file that the file is generated on > first instance boot, so your modifications will not survive a rebundle. > > Also possible, but less likely, is that you are not specifying a kernel, > and one is not being "inherited" from the running instance (due to some > bug). If that were the case, you'd end up using some old fedora kernel > (2.6.18 or so) which would fail to find the root filesystem. If that is > the case, then in either the bundle stage or the register stage you will > need to specify a kernel to launch with. For current 10.04 images and > beyond you should specify a "pv-grub" kernel. > > For us-east-1 (where ami-08f40561 is) you will want to use kernel > aki-427d952b (ec2-public-images/pv-grub-hd0-V1.01-x86_64.gz). > > So, either: > ec2-bundle-vol --kernel aki-427d952b ... > or > ec2-register --kernel aki-427d952b ... > >> This results in the ec2 instance booting up with kernel errors in the >> log; it cannot find the root fs... > > Both of the issues above will result in this error. > -- Ubuntu-cloud mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-cloud
