Re: [Xen-users] "couldn't find bootloader config file in the image provided."

[Mark Pryor <tlviewer@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- On Mon, 6/28/10, Corey Chandler <cchandler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Corey Chandler <cchandler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [Xen-users] "couldn't find bootloader config file in the image 
> provided."
> To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Monday, June 28, 2010, 2:10 PM
> I attempted to install Ubuntu 10.04
> as a domU on my CentOS dom0.  The process I used was:
> 
> wget 
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/xen/xm-debian.cfg
> 
> Edited the config file to use the proper logical volume for
> its install, and stepped through the install, installed GRUB
> to the MBR, and all seemed well.
> 
> However, upon
> xm create -c NAME install=true 
> install-mirror=http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/ubuntu/

<snip>
> RuntimeError: couldn't find bootloader config file in the
> image provided.
> No handlers could be found for logger "xend"
> Error: Boot loader didn't return any data!

If you followed installer defaults, then /boot is ext4 (strike 3).
Your Xen version won't support ext4 in boot partition.

Its pretty easy to upgrade your Xen to 3.42 by pointing Yum to this repo:
http://www.gitco.de/linux/x86_64/centos/5/

(watch the arch).
Best bet is to add the new *.repo from gitco,upgrade Xen, then try the PV 
install again and use ext3 in the /boot partition.

You will still have trouble with pygrub choking on the grub2 *.cfg file.
An option is to get hold of pv-grub for your arch and use that at first boot.

-- 
Mark






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