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Re: [Xen-users] pv-grub installation problem



On 31 March 2014 13:53, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-03-31 at 13:44 +0200, Aastha Mehta wrote:
>> I tried few grub commands, but it doesn't find any of the files,
>> devices, anything. What you hinted at may be true - that the config
>> file is not being read at all. I will investigate from that point.
>
> I just booted and at the grubdom prompt tried the "menu (hd" command and
> tab, which said:
>
>         grubdom> root (hd
>          Possible disks are:  hd0 hd1
>
> so I tried hd0:
>         grubdom> root (hd0)
>          Filesystem type unknown, using whole disk
>
> No good. So I tried hd1:
>         grubdom> root (hd1)
>          Filesystem type is ext2fs, using whole disk
>
> This is using
>         disk        = [
>                           
> 'phy:/dev/cam-st16/debian.guest.osstest-disk,xvda2,w',
>                           
> 'phy:/dev/cam-st16/debian.guest.osstest-swap,xvda1,w',
>                       ]
>
> I think what has happened is that xvda1 => hd0 and xvda2 => hd1.
>
> My guest is setup for booting from a dom0 kernel, so my /boot is empty,
> so I can't go much further, but perhaps this will help you make
> progress.
>
> Ian.
>

Wow, I didn't think of trying that. And indeed it works!

Thanks a lot!

Regards,
Aastha.

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