Hi Strahil, that worked in the end after some fiddling... Installing a different kernel wasn't enough, apparently the bootloader was not updated, until I create the grub2 bootloader again. System is now up & running again, only shows degraded state... Creating backups (ova) first, move them to another hypervisor and let's see what the problem is
Op ma 27 sep. 2021 om 15:01 schreef Strahil Nikolov <hunter86...@yahoo.com>: > > Just take a CentOS DVD , select troubleshooting and then once you drop to a > shell -> you can mount /proc/ , /sys , /dev & /run with the bind option and > chroot. > > Then just follow the procedure for your boot type EFI vs Legacy and recover > the files missing. > > Best Regards, > Strahil Nikolov > > > > > > > В събота, 25 септември 2021 г., 12:41:27 ч. Гринуич+3, <h...@jiflin.nl> > написа: > > > > > > Hi all, > > I am new here, been searching the mailing list on a regular base when I > encountered problems and till now I always was able to keep the system up & > running. > As said... till now... > I have oVirt at home, and I have about 7 vm's running on it. Lately I have > had some troubles with my electricity, which results in a complete power > outage on a irregular base. > Yesterday I had a power outage which left the system unbootable with the > following errors: > > error: ../../grub-core/loader/i386/pc/linux.c:170:invalid magic number. > error: ../../grub-core/loader/i386/pc/linux.c:1418:you need to load the > kernel first. > Press any key to continue > > Normally this can be solved following > https://access.redhat.com/solutions/5829141, but his time also the files in > /boot had a size of 0 bytes. So basically i did not have a working kernel on > the system anymore. > > https://www.thegeekdiary.com/centos-rhel-7-how-to-install-kernel-from-rescue-mode/ > does work for CentOS 8 also, but the ovirt 4.8 iso does not have the same > directory structure. Using CentOS 8 installs a kernel, but not a bootable > system. > > Is there a way i can start the installer in troubleshooting mode so I can > reinstall just the kernel on the system? > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@ovirt.org > Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html > oVirt Code of Conduct: > https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ > List Archives: > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/UUPMHNC7BQ62RK4BI5MFMZIPF6DDJLXJ/ _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@ovirt.org Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/3JT7PW3NX7LIH2U6ZIOSHRYTVKASVRIT/
