Hi All,
I have been trying to convert my virtual machine running on Xen hypervisor, and the convert was success. However, when I tried to boot the server at the target ESX, it failed to do it. The symptom is that
- Redhat 6.x: the screen did not show anything and the scroll lock key was on and off (I heard this is a kernel panic).
- CentOS 6.x: the last message shown on the screen was "Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)... ok".. I assume that EDD probing was success.. but after that, the kernel panics.
The source virtual machine partition below looks very normal to me. There are no special kernel arguments passed.
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[root@n2-poc-linux ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/xvda2 99G 1.6G 92G 2% /
tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/xvda1 248M 58M 178M 25% /boot
[root@n2-poc-linux ~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/xvda: 107.4 GB, 107374182400 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 13054 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00080183
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/xvda1 * 1 33 262144 83 Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/xvda2 33 13055 104594432 83 Linux
Disk /dev/xvdc: 107.4 GB, 107374182400 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 13054 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Disk /dev/xvdb: 2147 MB, 2147483648 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 261 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00025cdb
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/xvdb1 1 261 2096451 82 Linux swap / Solaris
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I have no clue at all why this happens... if someone can help out, it would be great!!!
thanks.