[Fedora-xen] Fresh Ubuntu Precise 12.04 i386 installation as domU in both F17 and 18 dom0 doesn't boot at all

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 04:08:30PM +0100, Roberto Fichera wrote:
> On 03/05/2013 01:14 PM, M A Young wrote:
> > On Tue, 5 Mar 2013, Roberto Fichera wrote:
> >
> >> I'm trying to boot Ubuntu 12.04 LTS precise i386 as domU after a clean installation on Fedora F17 and/or F18 dom0
> >> fully updated.
> >
> >> VmError: (2, 'Invalid kernel', 'elf_xen_note_check: ERROR: Will only load images built for the generic loader or
> >> Linux images')
> >
> > It seems that pygrub doesn't like your guest kernel (or possibly is failing to download them). Do you know what file
> > format Ubuntu uses for these kernels?
> 
> Looks a normal vmlinuz image
> 
> [root at storage dev]# file /mnt/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-38-generic
> /mnt/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-38-generic: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage, version 3.2.0-38-generic (buildd at akateko)
> #61-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 19 12:, RO-rootFS, swap_dev 0x4, Normal VGA

It might be that pygrub picks something else - not the vmlinuz but say multiboot.c32.

If you run pygrub -i <the disk image> and pick the right menu option - what does the command spit out?

> >
> >     Michael Young
> >
> 
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