I wouldn’t be posting if this wasn’t yet another corner case, where things don’t work as they should… I likely built my xcp-xapi box at a bad time for xcp-xapi and grub2, hopefully this helps others…<\/p>\n
Situation: installing new virtual kernel on Ubuntu 12.04 domU kernel upgrade crashes royally:<\/p>\n
Error: Starting VM – Using to parse \/boot\/grub\/grub.cfg – WARNING:root:Unknown directive load_video – WARNING:root:Unknown directive terminal_output – WARNING:root:Unknown directive else – WARNING:root:Unknown directive else – WARNING:root:Unknown directive else – WARNING:root:Unknown directive else – WARNING:root:Unknown directive else – WARNING:root:Unknown directive export – WARNING:root:Unknown image directive recordfail – WARNING:root:Unknown image directive gfxmode – WARNING:root:Unknown image directive recordfail – WARNING:root:Unknown directive submenu – WARNING:root:Unknown image directive recordfail – WARNING:root:Unknown image directive gfxmode – WARNING:root:Unknown image directive recordfail – Traceback (most recent call last): – File “\/usr\/lib\/xcp\/lib\/pygrub.xcp”, line 853, in – raise RuntimeError, “Unable to find partition containing kernel” – RuntimeError: Unable to find partition containing kernel<\/p>\n
Background: Ubuntu 12.04 dom0 running xcp<\/p>\n
Work around (http:\/\/blog.403labs.com\/post\/1546501840\/paravirtulization-with-citrix-xenserver-5-5-and-ubuntu):<\/p>\n
xe vm-param-set uuid=<VM-UUID> PV-bootloader-args=\"--kernel=\/boot\/vmlinuz-3.2.0-29-virtual --ramdisk=\/boot\/initrd.img-3.2.0-29-virtual\"<\/pre>\n\nxe vm-param-set uuid=<VM-UUID> PV-args=\"root=UUID=<disk-UUID> ro -- console=hvc0\"<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I wouldn’t be posting if this wasn’t yet another corner case, where things don’t work as they should… I likely built my xcp-xapi box at a bad time for xcp-xapi and grub2, hopefully this helps others… Situation: installing new virtual kernel on Ubuntu 12.04 domU kernel upgrade crashes royally: Error: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[53,140,154,155,158],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rln","tag-grub2","tag-ubuntu-12-04","tag-xapi","tag-xcp","tag-xen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomlinuxnotes.d13.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomlinuxnotes.d13.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomlinuxnotes.d13.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomlinuxnotes.d13.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomlinuxnotes.d13.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomlinuxnotes.d13.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomlinuxnotes.d13.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomlinuxnotes.d13.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomlinuxnotes.d13.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}