Hello, I have a rh el 5.5 host as hypervisor. I have a guest configured as "rh el 5.4 or later" kvm x86_64 and with vda as hd0. Inside this guest I booted with live iso and created partition vda1. Then I copied inside an rh el 5.5 physical machine data. Now I start the guest with a f14 rescue iso and try to setup grub to accomodate start of this p2v obtained environment Already done in the past with disks configured as hda or sda in guests. It seems I have a problem now with vda and I would like to ask suggestions.. probably I'm missing something simple..
my vda disk has also a vda2 partition setup for swap. /boot is a subdir of / (so inside vda1) I already setup the new initrd inside the guest, based on a plain installed vda based rh el 5.5 guest already present... the problem is with boot loader install into mbr. after booting guest with f14 x86_64 iso mkdir /p mount /dev/vda1 /p mknod of vda, vda1 and vda2 under /dev of guest (so under /p/dev) based on brw-r----- 1 root disk 253, 0 Nov 5 11:22 /dev/vda brw-r----- 1 root disk 253, 1 Sep 27 16:25 /dev/vda1 brw-r----- 1 root disk 253, 2 Sep 27 16:25 /dev/vda2 change of grub.conf and device.map files under /p/boot/grub directory grub.conf #boot=/dev/vda title .... root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz... initrd /boot/initrd... device.map (hd0) /dev/vda chroot /p grub --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map grub> root (hd0,0) Error 21: Selected disk does not exist The same without --device-map option If I use grub-install it successfully completes, but actually my guest then doesn' t start... Is there any bug or am I missing something stupid???? Any difference between using this strategy with an sda device and with a sda one? On the original host I had a SAN with some volumes and with /dev/cciss/c0d0 as the hd0.. I think I already clean old information.... BTW: On host side I have kvm-83-164.el5_5.21 kmod-kvm-83-164.el5_5.21 kvm-qemu-img-83-164.el5_5.21 etherboot-zroms-5.4.4-13.el5 etherboot-zroms-kvm-5.4.4-13.el5 libvirt-0.6.3-33.el5_5.3 virt-viewer-0.0.2-3.el5 libvirt-python-0.6.3-33.el5_5.3 virt-manager-0.6.1-12.el5 rhn-virtualization-host-5.3.0-17.el5sat python-virtinst-0.400.3-9.el5 My original physical host, from which I copied the contents to my guest was a rh el 5.5 x86_64 up2date as of kernel 2.6.18-194.8.1.el5 The env from which I run the iso cd and from which I run the chroot command is f14 x86_64 netinst Thanks in advance, Gianluca _______________________________________________ virt mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt
