Hi eMike,

I haven't any idea if it will help, but usually when I refer to a zvol, I use a 
different syntax.

--disk path=/tank/guests/dom1/disk0,size=10,driver=phy,subdriver=zvol

http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+xen/virtinstall

Perhaps that will help?


On Dec 14, 2009, at 7:17 PM, E. Mike Durbin wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Got a fresh install of b129.
> 
> Did an install of Fedora12, worked great.  Fedora goes through the entire 
> install,
> finishes, and wants to reboot.
> 
> Can't reboot, I get the following error:
> 
>   # virsh start fedora
>   error: Failed to start domain fedora
>   error: POST operation failed: xend_post: error from xen daemon: (xend.err 
> "Boot loader didn't return any data!")
> 
> I can look at the zvol (/dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/guests/fedora) and see that
> grub did get installed.
> 
> # dd if=/dev/zvol/rdsk/rpool/guests/fedora of=/tmp/junk bs=1024k count=2
> # od -c /tmp/junk > /tmp/junk.od-c
> # more /tmp/junk.od-c
> ....
> 0000560  \0 276 223   } 350   *  \0 353 376   G   R   U   B      \0   G
> 0000600   e   o   m  \0   H   a   r   d       D   i   s   k  \0   R   e
> ....
> 
> Here was my install script:
> 
> MEDIA=nfs:192.168.5.1:/storage/misc/Downloads/ISOs/Linux/Fedora12/Fedora-12-x86_64-DVD
> 
> NAME=fedora
> POOL=rpool/guests
> 
> #zfs create -V 50G ${POOL}/${NAME}
> 
> virt-install \
>       --paravirt \
>       --nographics \
>       --noautoconsole \
>       --debug \
>       --os-type linux \
>       --os-variant fedora11 \
>       -n ${NAME} \
>       -f /dev/zvol/dsk/${POOL}/${NAME} \
>       -l ${MEDIA} \
>       --vcpus=1 \
>       -r 1024
> 
> (I tried with and without 'nographics' and 'autoconsole')
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> emike
> 
> 
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