[Xen-users] HVM Linux just installed but does not do its first boot

[Сергей Лукашевич <lukash33@xxxxxxxxx>]

Just successfully installed SLES9.3-32bit as file-backended HVM domU.

Everything went OK, the distributive partitioned its "harddisk" into root and 
swap OK, have its grub installed into sda boot sector, but I could not make to 
boot no one single first time after installation. Every domU boot gives the 
following screen for a short time and dies:



Booting from Hard Disk...

Boot from Hard Disk failed: could not read the boot disk

FATAL: No bootable device.



I beleive this it QEMU output, is not it?

So when I place a Knopix (bootable linux) CD image into domUs cdrom, my domU 
does recognise the /dev/sda disk just fine: I could run even fdisk, fsck, and 
mount.



here is the domU config file I used:



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import os, re

arch = os.uname()[4]

if re.search('64', arch):

    arch_libdir = 'lib64'

else:

    arch_libdir = 'lib'



kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"

builder='hvm'

memory = 512

vcpus=2

name = "sles9.3-32bit"

vif = [ 'type=ioemu, mac=aa:a0:01:ad:a0:a0, bridge=xenbr0' ]

disk=['file:/IMG/sles9.3-32bit.disk,sda,w']

#disk=['file:/IMG/sles9.3-32bit.disk,sda,w','file:/ISO/Knoppix-5.0.1.iso,hdc:cdrom,r']

device_model = '/usr/' + arch_libdir + '/xen/bin/qemu-dm'

#boot="d"

sdl=1

vnc=0

vncunused=1

vncconsole=0

stdvga=0

--------------------------------------------



I am not a novice in Linux and do not suspect I made a mistake installing it 
for some 1000th time. So why disk not recognised by XEN? Could not find an 
answer so far.



Environment: XEN3.1, dom0 runs SLES9.3-64bit, SUN X4600 server.

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