Re: [Xen-users] Xen domU cannot boot via PV-GRUB

[GNUbie <gnubie@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Fajar,

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Fajar A. Nugraha <list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> That's not what I asked.
>
> The key point is you need to have correct root. If you actually create
> the filesystem with "mkfs.ext3 -L /" or run "e2label ...", then the
> label should be there, and you don't need to worry (on grub.conf
> anyway) whether it's hda2, sda2, or xvda2.

When I format the new volume for this new domU, I added that -L /
option for the sda2 and /boot for the sda1.

> On the other hand, if you create the image from scratch, and did NOT
> create the label manually, and transfer the files using
> rsync/tar/whatever, you will not have the label.

Then, I transferred the files using the dump and restore utilities to
a mounted directory (e.g. /mnt) where:

/mnt => /dev/sda2
/mnt/boot => /dev/sda1

> again, I didn't ask that, and it's not relevant really.
> I asked
>
>>> What does your domU config
>>> file looks like?

Honestly, I don't know because I don't manage the dom0. But based on
the documentation, it expects sd* mapping.

> I also asked
>
>>> What does "fdisk -l /path/to/your/disk-image" look like

Right now, the volume is in my other domU's /dev/sdk:

# fdisk -l /dev/sdk

Disk /dev/sdk: 2147 MB, 2147483648 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 261 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x9f08f669

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdk1               1          17      136521   83  Linux
/dev/sdk2              18         261     1959930   83  Linux


> I didn't ask how it was on the original dom0. I asked what your
> current image has right now.
>
> If you simply copy the image then the partition might be the same, but
> in that case you've made an obvious mistake: your "/" was on xvda1.
> Passing "root=/dev/sda2" is simply silly.
>
> It's useless to go into details right now without knowing what your
> current image looks like.

Based on the above output for the fdisk command, sdk1 contains the
files and directories for the /boot partition while the sdk2 contains
the rest of the files and directories of the entire / partition. With
this, my /etc/fstab for the new domU has been configured like this:

LABEL=/boot /boot       ext3    defaults            1   2
LABEL=/     /           ext3    defaults            1   1
tmpfs       /dev/shm    tmpfs   defaults            0   0
devpts      /dev/pts    devpts  gid=5,mode=620      0   0
sysfs       /sys        sysfs   defaults            0   0
proc        /proc       proc    defaults            0   0
none        /proc/xen   xenfs   defaults            0   0

And I also tried changing the first 2 lines with:

/dev/sda1   /boot       ext3    defaults            1   2
/dev/sda2   /           ext3    defaults            1   1

Anyway, I just did a grep to this new domU and below were the output:

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# pwd
/

# grep -i xvd */*
Binary file boot/initrd-2.6.34.7-56.40.i686.img matches
Binary file boot/vmlinuz-2.6.34.7-56.40.i686 matches
etc/fstab:#/dev/xvda1  /boot       ext3    defaults            1   2
etc/fstab:#/dev/xvda2  /           ext3    defaults            1   1
Binary file lib/liblvm2app.so.2.2 matches
Binary file lib/liblvm2cmd.so.2.02 matches
sbin/ec2udev:  if echo "$1"|grep -qE 'xvd[a-z][0-9]?' ; then
sbin/ec2udev:    echo "$1" | sed -e 's/xvd/sd/'
Binary file sbin/lvchange matches
Binary file sbin/lvconvert matches
Binary file sbin/lvcreate matches
Binary file sbin/lvdisplay matches
Binary file sbin/lvextend matches
Binary file sbin/lvm matches
Binary file sbin/lvmchange matches
Binary file sbin/lvmdiskscan matches
Binary file sbin/lvmsadc matches
Binary file sbin/lvmsar matches
Binary file sbin/lvm.static matches
Binary file sbin/lvreduce matches
Binary file sbin/lvremove matches
Binary file sbin/lvrename matches
Binary file sbin/lvresize matches
Binary file sbin/lvs matches
Binary file sbin/lvscan matches
sbin/mkinitrd:                            [[ ${dep} =~ ^/dev/xvd.+ ]]
&& continue
sbin/mkinitrd:                        [[ ${dep} =~ ^/dev/xvd.+ ]] && continue
sbin/mkinitrd:                    [[ ${dep} =~ ^/dev/xvd.+ ]] && continue
Binary file sbin/pvchange matches
Binary file sbin/pvck matches
Binary file sbin/pvcreate matches
Binary file sbin/pvdisplay matches
Binary file sbin/pvmove matches
Binary file sbin/pvremove matches
Binary file sbin/pvresize matches
Binary file sbin/pvs matches
Binary file sbin/pvscan matches
Binary file sbin/vgcfgbackup matches
Binary file sbin/vgcfgrestore matches
Binary file sbin/vgchange matches
Binary file sbin/vgck matches
Binary file sbin/vgconvert matches
Binary file sbin/vgcreate matches
Binary file sbin/vgdisplay matches
Binary file sbin/vgexport matches
Binary file sbin/vgextend matches
Binary file sbin/vgimport matches
Binary file sbin/vgmerge matches
Binary file sbin/vgmknodes matches
Binary file sbin/vgreduce matches
Binary file sbin/vgremove matches
Binary file sbin/vgrename matches
Binary file sbin/vgs matches
Binary file sbin/vgscan matches
Binary file sbin/vgsplit matches

# grep -i xvd */*/*
Binary file boot/boot/initrd-2.6.34.7-56.40.i686.img matches
Binary file boot/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.34.7-56.40.i686 matches
grep: dev/mapper/control: Invalid argument
grep: etc/alternatives/mta: No such file or directory
grep: etc/alternatives/mta-mailq: No such file or directory
grep: etc/alternatives/mta-mailqman: No such file or directory
grep: etc/alternatives/mta-newaliases: No such file or directory
grep: etc/alternatives/mta-pam: No such file or directory
grep: etc/alternatives/mta-rmail: No such file or directory
grep: etc/alternatives/mta-rsmtp: No such file or directory
grep: etc/alternatives/mta-runq: No such file or directory
grep: etc/alternatives/mta-sendmail: No such file or directory
etc/blkid/blkid.tab:<device DEVNO="0xca01" TIME="1287132238.551661"
UUID="66c6f5a3-b64e-4bdf-bb32-9c7cf6a6c431"
TYPE="ext3">/dev/xvda1</device>
etc/blkid/blkid.tab:<device DEVNO="0xca02" TIME="1287132238.570084"
LABEL="swap" UUID="97ea8a42-fea2-4015-979c-15ff965990ac"
TYPE="swap">/dev/xvda2</device>
etc/blkid/blkid.tab.old:<device DEVNO="0xca01"
TIME="1287025097.904622" UUID="66c6f5a3-b64e-4bdf-bb32-9c7cf6a6c431"
TYPE="ext3">/dev/xvda1</device>
etc/blkid/blkid.tab.old:<device DEVNO="0xca02"
TIME="1286881135.564786" LABEL="swap2"
UUID="4aa34098-17b2-4033-8e73-e88fdfec157b"
TYPE="swap">/dev/xvda2</device>
etc/makedev.d/02linux-2.6.x:b $STORAGE             202   0  1 256 xvd%c%|%d a 16
grep: etc/pam.d/smtp: No such file or directory
etc/sysconfig/sysstat.ioconf:202:xvd:*:0:a:16:*:16:Xen Virtual Disk
etc/sysconfig/sysstat.ioconf-orig:202:xvd:*:0:a:16:p:16:Xen Virtual Block Device
grep: usr/bin/mailq: No such file or directory
grep: usr/bin/newaliases: No such file or directory
Binary file usr/bin/php matches
Binary file usr/bin/php-cgi matches
grep: usr/bin/pydoc: No such file or directory
grep: usr/bin/pydoc2: No such file or directory
grep: usr/bin/rmail: No such file or directory
grep: usr/bin/rsmtp: No such file or directory
grep: usr/bin/runq: No such file or directory
Binary file usr/lib/libbdevid.so.5.1.19.6 matches
var/mail/root: /dev/xvda1            9.7G  963M  8.2G  11% /
var/mail/root: /dev/xvda1            9.7G  963M  8.2G  11% /
var/mail/root: /dev/xvda1            9.7G  995M  8.2G  11% /
- - - < s n i p > - - -

Thank you once again.

Regards,

GNUbie

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