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boot failed from centos7 iso for icehouse [closed]

asked 2015-02-12 18:49:59 -0600

Eric Xie gravatar image

updated 2015-02-13 01:03:50 -0600

Hi stackers.

I got the centos7_minimal.iso from http://mirrors.163.com/centos/7.0.1406/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7.0-1406-x86_64-Minimal.iso.

nova version: 2014.1

use flavor below:

# nova flavor-list 
+--------------------------------------+----------------+-----------+------+-----------+------+-------+-------------+-----------+
| ID                                   | Name           | Memory_MB | Disk | Ephemeral | Swap | VCPUs | RXTX_Factor | Is_Public |
+--------------------------------------+----------------+-----------+------+-----------+------+-------+-------------+-----------+
| c9425a87-2453-4af5-9011-7eb2bd6f3653 | flv-iso-40-eph | 2048      | 10   | 40        |      | 2     | 1.0         | True      |
+--------------------------------------+----------------+-----------+------+-----------+------+-------+-------------+-----------+
# nova image-list
+--------------------------------------+------------------------------+--------+--------+
| ID                                   | Name                         | Status | Server |
+--------------------------------------+------------------------------+--------+--------+
| 8db37b05-a822-42b9-a87b-9d1eb9e88a79 | centos7-mini-iso             | ACTIVE |        |

Launch one instance with flavor and image above.

#nova boot --flavor c9425a87-2453-4af5-9011-7eb2bd6f3653 --image centos7-mini-iso instance-boo-from-iso

instance was launched successfully. But when I install cent os with console, got:

warnning:/dev/root does not exist.

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How exactly are you launching the instance?

larsks gravatar imagelarsks ( 2015-02-12 21:17:22 -0600 )edit

Please update your question with nova image-list. To launch an instance we need to use image files.

1-Cloud gravatar image1-Cloud ( 2015-02-13 00:07:07 -0600 )edit

Hi larsks and 1-Cloud, thanks for reply. Already update the question.

Eric Xie gravatar imageEric Xie ( 2015-02-13 01:05:30 -0600 )edit

No.of peoples facing the same issue. i wll try to trace out the issue and i will try to give you a correct solution.

1-Cloud gravatar image1-Cloud ( 2015-02-13 03:46:40 -0600 )edit
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answered 2015-02-13 10:47:53 -0600

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It's still not entirely clear to me where you are seeing this failure. Here are the steps I've used to successfully boot an instance using the CentOS 7 minimal ISO:

  1. Download the image:

    wget http://mirrors.163.com/centos/7.0.1406/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7.0-1406-x86_64-Minimal.iso

  2. Upload the image to glance:

    glance image-create --file CentOS-7.0-1406-x86_64-Minimal.iso \
  --name centos-7-x86_64_minimal_iso \
  --container-format bare --disk-format iso --is-public true

  3. Boot a Nova instance from this image:

    nova boot --image centos-7-x86_64_minimal_iso --flavor m1.small centos

This boots me into the CentOS installer, but I am unable to install at this point because the instance has no associated disk image. However, if I create a volume:

$ cinder create --display-name centos-7-minimal 10

And then attach that to the instance when I boot:

$ nova boot --flavor m1.small --image centos-7-x86_64_minimal_iso  \
  --block-device source=volume,id=103f7d3d-f453-45ea-9798-84f25e4cf17a,dest=volume,bus=virtio \
  centos

Then I can (a) boot into the installer and (b) install CentOS onto the attached volume. Once the installation is finished, I can delete the instance and then boot directly from the volume:

$ cinder set-bootable centos-7-minimal true
$ cinder list
+--------------------------------------+-----------+------------------+...
|                  ID                  |   Status  |   Display Name   |...
+--------------------------------------+-----------+------------------+...
| 103f7d3d-f453-45ea-9798-84f25e4cf17a | available | centos-7-minimal |...
+--------------------------------------+-----------+------------------+...
$ nova boot --flavor m1.small \
  --boot-volume 103f7d3d-f453-45ea-9798-84f25e4cf17a centos

And the instance boots up to a login: prompt (and I can log in using the password I selected in the installer).

I could transform this volume into a Glance image using the cinder upload-to-image command.

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Thanks. I will try it later.

Eric Xie gravatar imageEric Xie ( 2015-02-26 17:02:06 -0600 )edit
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