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Re: [Xen-users] Xen 3.4.1: pygrub Error: Boot loader didn't return any d

Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Gerry Reno <greno@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

root@grp-01-23-02:/var/lib/xen/images# fdisk -l $LOOP

Disk /dev/loop0: 128.8 GB, 128849018880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 15665 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000438c1

    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/loop0p1   *           1       15634   125580073+  8e  Linux LVM
/dev/loop0p2           15635       15665      249007+   5  Extended
/dev/loop0p5           15635       15665      248976   83  Linux

This is just wrong. In sooo many levels. The active partition is LVM?
/boot is on logical partition? Come on ...
grub/grub2 PROBABLY won't care about it if you install them on MBR,
but it won't work if you install them on the boot sector (/dev/vda5),
or use other bootloaders (like syslinux/extlinux), or use pygrub.
/boot needs to be active, primary partition.

It's probably not your fault though (I think I got similar results
with opensuse), so if that's the default layout you got when
installing the OS you should file a bug to your distro (Ubuntu?).
This was all setup by the ubuntu installer.

At this point it's probably easiest to just create another virtual
disk with one primary partition, and copy the contents of the original
/boot there. It's A LOT easier compared to messing up with existing
partition table. Your domU config should then look something like this

disk = [ "tap:aio:/var/lib/xen/images/CLOUD-CC-1-boot.img,xvda,w",
"tap:aio:/var/lib/xen/images/CLOUD-CC-1.img,xvdb,w" ]
If I do this then maybe I can straighten the original partition table out; remove the last two partitions and create a primary active partition for /boot.

Don't forget to umount all the disk images after these tests (umount,
kpartx -dv, losetup -d). Forgetting that can lead to data corruption.
Thanks for the reminder and thanks for taking a look at this.

-Gerry


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