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

[Roberto Fichera]

On 03/05/2013 04:55 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> 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?

pyGRUB version 0.6
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Ubuntu, with Linux 3.2.0-38-generic │
│ Ubuntu, with Linux 3.2.0-38-generic (recovery mode) │
│ Memory test (memtest86+) │
│ Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200) │
│ │
│ │
│ │
│ │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Use the ^ and ┴ keys to select which entry is highlighted.
Press enter to boot the selected OS, 'e' to edit the
commands before booting, 'a' to modify the kernel arguments
before booting, or 'c' for a command line.

then terminate with:

Using <class 'grub.GrubConf.Grub2ConfigFile'> to parse /boot/grub/grub.cfg
WARNING:root:Unknown directive load_video
WARNING:root:Unknown directive terminal_output
WARNING:root:Unknown directive else
WARNING:root:Unknown directive else
WARNING:root:Unknown directive else
WARNING:root:Unknown directive else
WARNING:root:Unknown directive else
WARNING:root:Unknown directive export
WARNING:root:Unknown image directive recordfail
WARNING:root:Unknown image directive gfxmode
WARNING:root:Unknown image directive recordfail
WARNING:root:Unknown image directive linux16
WARNING:root:Unknown image directive linux16
WARNING:root:Unknown directive else
WARNING:root:Unknown directive else
WARNING:root:Unknown directive source
linux (kernel /var/run/xend/boot/boot_kernel.uTenpi)(ramdisk /var/run/xend/boot/boot_ramdisk.3D1f0E)(args
"root=UUID=e4aca1a8-2267-4709-99d5-557b9c49cda2 ro quiet splash $vt_handoff")[root at vserver4 bacula]#


looks like it isn't detecting grub2, right?


>
>>>     Michael Young
>>>
>> --
>> xen mailing list
>> xen at lists.fedoraproject.org
>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen