Hi,
I tried installing Fedora 9 x86_64 as follows:
virt-install -n Fedora-9-x86_64-test --nographics -p -f
/files/guests/Fedora-9-x86_64-test/root.img -r 4096 -l http://<my http
server IP address>/Fedora-9-x86_64-DVD
The installation went fine but the first and all subsequent boot
attempts failed with the following message in the console:
# virsh start Fedora-9-x86_64-test
libvir: Xen Daemon error : POST operation failed: (xend.err "Boot
loader didn't return any data!")
error: Failed to start domain Fedora-9-x86_64-test
and the following messages in /var/log/xen/xend.log:
[2008-11-14 06:58:22 588] DEBUG (SrvDomain:76) Starting domain
Fedora-9-x86_64-test False
[2008-11-14 06:58:22 588] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1618)
XendDomainInfo.constructDomain
[2008-11-14 06:58:22 588] DEBUG (balloon:116) Balloon: 4201280 KiB
free; need 2048; done.
[2008-11-14 06:58:22 588] DEBUG (XendDomain:435) Adding Domain: 50
[2008-11-14 06:58:22 588] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1685)
XendDomainInfo.initDomain: 50 256
[2008-11-14 06:58:22 7686] DEBUG (XendBootloader:113) Launching
bootloader as ['/usr/lib/xen/bin/pygrub',
'--output=/var/run/xend/boot/xenbl.4419',
'/files/guests/Fedora-9-x86_64-test/root.img'].
[2008-11-14 06:58:22 588] ERROR (XendBootloader:212) Boot loader
didn't return any data!
[2008-11-14 06:58:22 588] ERROR (XendDomainInfo:441) VM start failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
File
"/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", line 421,
in start
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendTask.py", line
209, in log_progress
File
"/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", line
1687, in _initDomain
File
"/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", line
2059, in _configureBootloader
File
"/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendBootloader.py", line 213,
in bootloader
VmError: Boot loader didn't return any data!
[2008-11-14 06:58:22 588] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1893)
XendDomainInfo.destroy: domid=50
[2008-11-14 06:58:22 588] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1912)
XendDomainInfo.destroyDomain(50)
[2008-11-14 06:58:22 588] ERROR (SrvBase:88) Request start failed.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen/web/SrvBase.py", line
85, in perform
File
"/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/server/SrvDomain.py", line
77, in op_start
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomain.py",
line 1006, in domain_start
File
"/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", line 421,
in start
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendTask.py", line
209, in log_progress
File
"/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", line
1687, in _initDomain
File
"/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", line
2059, in _configureBootloader
File
"/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendBootloader.py", line 213,
in bootloader
VmError: Boot loader didn't return any data!
The grub configuration of the guest looks OK. If I boot the guest in
rescue mode, copy the kernel and ramdisk to dom0, and redefine the guest
to use the kernel and ramdisk from dom0, the guest boots fine.
Any thoughts? One thought here is that xVM's pygrub cannot deal
correctly with the inode size used by newest Linux distributions by
default. I had a similar problem with openSUSE 11.
snv101a 64 bit.
Thank you,
Vasiliy
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