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Aug 16, 2012, 1:22 PM
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Re: Debian kernel 3.1 onwards fails to boot on Xen domU
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On a PV, the vm doesn't boot and I see error "Error: Starting VM -
Traceback (most recent call last): - File "/usr/bin/pygrub", line 808, in ?
- fs = fsimage.open(file, part_offs[0], bootfsoptions) - IOError: [Errno
95] Operation not supported"
Deepti
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 1:09 AM, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell [at] citrix>wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-08-16 at 00:29 +0100, Deepti kulkarni wrote:
> > I am trying to debug the debian bug for Xen
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=656792.
> >
> >
> > The domU debian machine (HVM and PV) fails to bootup and redirects to
> > initramfs prompt. The error is "Unable to find a medium containing a
> > live image system".
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> > I did a cat on proc/modules. Looks like the xen drivers are not
> > loaded.
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> >
> > A modprobe of xen_blkfront doesnt help the bootup either.
> >
> >
> > Any workaround suggested. Debian Kernel 3.0 work fine.
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> There are several suggested workarounds and diagnostics to try in that
> bug log -- have you tried them?
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> That said I'm not necessarily convinced your issue is related to that
> bug, which was quite PVHVM specific (yet you mention having the problem
> on PV too).
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> If none of the suggested workarounds help then I would suggest making a
> full bug report (with logs etc) as described in
> http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Reporting_Bugs_against_Xen
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> In particular full guest logs and a description of the installation
> method which you used would be useful.
>
> Ian.
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