Re: Installing GRUB to drive image

[Jordan Uggla]

On Mar 28, 2012 6:29 PM, "Charles Yost" <address@hidden> wrote:

> > I will make the alterations and see if I can get the image to boot.
> >
>
>
> Progress has been made, I think, but the image, when copied on to
> disk, is not booting. It displays: (error: no such device:
> 69ee516d-d9b4-4075-84e4-8d71d31f3061) I don't have any partitions with
> this block id on the system I used to create the image, so I can only
> guess that it was the block id of the device created by kpartx? It
> then dumps me to the rescue prompt. When at the rescue prompt, I can
> type ls and it shows (hd0), but insmod normal produces: (error:
> unknown filesystem.).
> What should I try next?

What are the exact commands you're currently running after
partitioning with parted, including the mount commands? Also, to save
time rather than dding the image to an actual device and rebooting to
test it you can simply run "kvm -hda /path/to/disk.img".

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