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 17:10:13 +0200 Message-ID: <49D23255.8090202@wpkg.org> References: <49D22FAF.5060808@verizon.net> <49D23022.5060101@wpkg.org> <49D231D0.3040805@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]:48599 "EHLO mx03.syneticon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760812AbZCaPKS (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:10:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: <49D231D0.3040805@verizon.net> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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