Alex
2012-Mar-29 06:11 UTC
[Pkg-xen-devel] xen-utils-4.1, pygrub, xvda1, "Boot loader didn't return any data!"
Hello, xen-utils-4.1's pygrub is unable to boot VMs from a partitionless blockdev that has grub installed in first sector. I'm not sure it deserves a bug report, although it is kind of a regression from 4.0. Long story short: zeroing first sector of domU's boot blockdev fixes it. Maybe some of this report would be useful in the wiki, if someone else has the same (odd) setup. --- The long story: I upgraded one of my squeeze dom0 to wheezy to assess foreseeable problems, all my domU are squeeze PVs, booting with pygrub, backed by separate partitionless block-devices as boot/root dev (provided by dom0 LVs, but thats irrelevant). pygrub from xen-utils-4.1 isn't happy with that setup, VM fails to start with: Error: Boot loader didn't return any data! and 4.1's pygrub <dev> shows: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/xen-4.1/bin/pygrub", line 729, in <module> if not fs: NameError: name 'fs' is not defined I didn't notice this problem until I purged xen-utils-4.0. I believe installing 4.1 didn't update /etc/alternatives/xen-default and since my vms cfg point at '/usr/lib/xen-default/bin/pygrub', problem remained hidden until the purge. Reinstalling xen-utils-4.0 and changing VMs cfgs to have bootloader stanza point at this specific pygrub version confirmed that 4.0 is immune to this. But don't do that. Since the domU boot/root blockdevs have a useless "bootsector" (??)... I zero'ed the first 512 bytes of domU's xvda1, which restored 4.1's pygrub ability to find its way through and boot the domU. (dd if=/dev/zero bs=512 count=1 of=domU-disk). Hope this helps... alex
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