I am seeing the same problem on Karmic with ubuntu-vm-builder and grub not finding the stage1 grub file.
I converted the qcow2 image created by vmbuilder to raw and then mounted the image to inspect the grub directory. It seems that the grub stage files are actually in /boot/grub/i386-pc. ubuntu-kvm/mnt/boot/ |-- System.map-2.6.31-14-generic-pae |-- config-2.6.31-14-generic-pae |-- grub | |-- default | |-- device.map | |-- grubenv | |-- i386-pc | | |-- e2fs_stage1_5 | | |-- fat_stage1_5 | | |-- jfs_stage1_5 | | |-- minix_stage1_5 | | |-- reiserfs_stage1_5 | | |-- stage1 | | |-- stage2 | | |-- stage2_eltorito | | `-- xfs_stage1_5 | |-- menu.lst | |-- menu.lste | `-- menu.lst~ |-- initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic-pae `-- vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic-pae If you copy the stage files from boot/grub you can then manually install grub and get the KVM image to boot. # cd ubuntu-kvm ; mkdir mnt # qemu-img convert -O raw disk0.qcow2 disk0.img # mount -oloop,offset=16384 -t ext3 disk0.img mnt # cp mnt/boot/grub/i386-pc/stage* mnt/boot/grub # grub --device-map=/dev/null grub> device (hd0) ../disk0.img device (hd0) ../disk0.img grub> root (hd0,0) root (hd0,0) grub> setup (hd0) setup (hd0) Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... no Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) /boot/grub/stage2 p /boot/grub/menu.lst "... succeeded Done. # qemu-img convert -O qcow2 disk0.img disk0.qcow2 -- VMBuilder doesn't work with grub2 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/410886 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
