From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tomasz Chmielewski Subject: Re: KVM-74: HELP PLEASE - cannot boot from cdrom for recovery Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:00:50 +0200 Message-ID: <49D23022.5060101@wpkg.org> References: <49D22FAF.5060808@verizon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Gerry Reno Return-path: Received: from mx03.syneticon.net ([78.111.66.105]:58647 "EHLO mx03.syneticon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760942AbZCaPAz (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:00:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: <49D22FAF.5060808@verizon.net> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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? -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org