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What Do I Do If a Partition Is Not Found During the Startup of an ECS Created from an Imported Private Image?

Cause

Disk partition IDs are changed after the cross-platform image import. As a result, no partition can be found at startup. In this case, you need to change disk partition IDs in the image to UUID.

Solution

openSUSE 13.2 is used as an example.

  1. Check disk partition IDs.

    ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/

    An output similar to the following should be seen:

    total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jul 22 01:35 ata-QEMU_HARDDISK_QM00001 -> ../../xvda
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jul 22 01:35 ata-QEMU_HARDDISK_QM00001-part1 -> ../../xvda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jul 22 01:35 ata-QEMU_HARDDISK_QM00001-part10 -> ../../xvda10
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jul 22 01:35 ata-QEMU_HARDDISK_QM00001-part2 -> ../../xvda2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jul 22 01:35 ata-QEMU_HARDDISK_QM00001-part5 -> ../../xvda5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jul 22 01:35 ata-QEMU_HARDDISK_QM00001-part6 -> ../../xvda6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jul 22 01:35 ata-QEMU_HARDDISK_QM00001-part7 -> ../../xvda7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jul 22 01:35 ata-QEMU_HARDDISK_QM00001-part8 -> ../../xvda8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jul 22 01:35 ata-QEMU_HARDDISK_QM00001-part9 -> ../../xvda9
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jul 22 01:35 ata-QEMU_HARDDISK_QM00005 -> ../../xvde
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jul 22 01:35 scsi-SATA_QEMU_HARDDISK_QM00001 -> ../../xvda
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jul 22 01:35 scsi-SATA_QEMU_HARDDISK_QM00001-part1 -> ../../xvda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jul 22 01:35 scsi-SATA_QEMU_HARDDISK_QM00001-part10 -> ../../xvda10
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jul 22 01:35 scsi-SATA_QEMU_HARDDISK_QM00001-part2 -> ../../xvda2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jul 22 01:35 scsi-SATA_QEMU_HARDDISK_QM00001-part5 -> ../../xvda5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jul 22 01:35 scsi-SATA_QEMU_HARDDISK_QM00001-part6 -> ../../xvda6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jul 22 01:35 scsi-SATA_QEMU_HARDDISK_QM00001-part7 -> ../../xvda7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jul 22 01:35 scsi-SATA_QEMU_HARDDISK_QM00001-part8 -> ../../xvda8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jul 22 01:35 scsi-SATA_QEMU_HARDDISK_QM00001-part9 -> ../../xvda9
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jul 22 01:35 scsi-SATA_QEMU_HARDDISK_QM00005 -> ../../xvde

    ata-QEMU_HARDDISK_xxx and scsi-SATA_QEMU_HARDDISK_xxx indicate that the ECS disks are simulated using Quick EMUlator (QEMU). The content on the left of -> are disk partition IDs, and that on the right of -> are partition names.

  2. Check disk partition UUIDs.

    ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/

    An output similar to the following should be seen:

    total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jul 22 01:35 45ecd7a0-29da-4402-a017-4564a62308b8 -> ../../xvda5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jul 22 01:35 55386c6a-9e32-41d4-af7a-e79596221f51 -> ../../xvda9
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jul 22 01:35 55f36660-9bac-478c-a701-7ecc5347f789 -> ../../xvda8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jul 22 01:35 780f36bc-0ada-4c98-9a8d-44570d65333d -> ../../xvda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jul 22 01:35 b3b7c47f-6a91-45ef-80d6-275b1cc16e19 -> ../../xvda6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jul 22 01:35 ea63b55d-3b6e-4dcd-8986-956b72bac3e9 -> ../../xvda7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jul 22 01:35 eb3cc645-925e-4bc5-bedf-c2a6f3b65809 -> ../../xvda10

    The content on the left of -> are disk partition UUIDs, and that on the right of -> are partition names. Based on the outputs in 1 and this step, you can obtain the mappings between the partition names, IDs, and UUIDs.

  3. Open the /etc/fstab file to check partition names.

    vi /etc/fstab

    An example command output is as follows:

    /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_QEMU_HARDDISK_QM00001-part5 / ext3 defaults,errors=panic 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_QEMU_HARDDISK_QM00001-part1 /boot ext3 defaults,errors=panic 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_QEMU_HARDDISK_QM00001-part6 /home ext3 nosuid,errors=panic 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_QEMU_HARDDISK_QM00001-part10 /opt ext3 defaults,errors=panic 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_QEMU_HARDDISK_QM00001-part7 /tmp ext3 nodev,nosuid,errors=panic 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_QEMU_HARDDISK_QM00001-part9 /usr ext3 defaults,errors=panic 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_QEMU_HARDDISK_QM00001-part8 /var ext3 nodev,nosuid,errors=panic 1 2
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/ udf,iso9660 noexec,noauto,nouser,nodev,nosuid 1 2
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs noexec,nodev,nosuid 0 0

    The values in the first column are the disk partition IDs.

  4. Press i to enter editing mode. Change each disk partition ID to a UUID based on the outputs in 1 and 2.
    The modified content is as follows. 
    UUID=45ecd7a0-29da-4402-a017-4564a62308b8 / ext3 defaults,errors=panic 1 1
UUID=780f36bc-0ada-4c98-9a8d-44570d65333d /boot ext3 defaults,errors=panic 1 2
UUID=b3b7c47f-6a91-45ef-80d6-275b1cc16e19 /home ext3 nosuid,errors=panic 1 2
UUID=eb3cc645-925e-4bc5-bedf-c2a6f3b65809 /opt ext3 defaults,errors=panic 1 2
UUID=ea63b55d-3b6e-4dcd-8986-956b72bac3e9 /tmp ext3 nodev,nosuid,errors=panic 1 2
UUID=55386c6a-9e32-41d4-af7a-e79596221f51 /usr ext3 defaults,errors=panic 1 2
UUID=55f36660-9bac-478c-a701-7ecc5347f789 /var ext3 nodev,nosuid,errors=panic 1 2
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/ udf,iso9660 noexec,noauto,nouser,nodev,nosuid 1 2
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs noexec,nodev,nosuid 0 0

    Ensure that the UUIDs are correct, or the ECS will be unable to start up normally.

  5. Press Esc, enter :wq, and press Enter. The system saves the configuration and exits the editor.
  6. Check the partition names in the system boot configuration file.

    The system boot configuration file varies depending on the OS. Confirm the boot configuration file of the current OS.

    • GRUB file
      • /boot/grub/grub.conf
      • /boot/grub/menu.lst
      • /boot/grub/grub.cfg
      • /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
    • Syslinux configuration file
      • /extlinux.conf
      • /boot/syslinux/extlinux.conf
      • /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf
      • /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg
      • /syslinux/syslinux.cfg
      • /syslinux.cfg

    The boot file in this example is /boot/grub/menu.lst. Run the following command to check it:

    vi /boot/grub/menu.lst

    default 0
timeout 3
title xxx Server OS - xxxxxx
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.101-0.47.52-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_QEMU_HARDDISK_QM00001-part5 resume= memmap=0x2000000$0x3E000000 nmi_watchdog=2 crashkernel=512M-:256M console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0 xen_emul_unplug=all
initrd /boot/initrd-3.0.101-0.47.52-default
  7. Press i to enter editing mode and change the partition names in the system boot configuration file.

    Change each disk partition name in the /boot/grub/menu.lst file in 6 to UUID=UUID of the disk partition based on the query results in 1 and 2.

    default 0
timeout 3
title xxx Server OS - xxxxxx
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.101-0.47.52-default root=UUID=45ecd7a0-29da-4402-a017-4564a62308b8 resume= memmap=0x2000000$0x3E000000 nmi_watchdog=2 crashkernel=512M-:256M console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0 xen_emul_unplug=all
initrd /boot/initrd-3.0.101-0.47.52-default
  8. Press Esc, enter :wq, and press Enter. The system saves the configuration and exits the vi editor.
Parent topic: ECS Creation