Change Boot Order

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES Virtualization
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Hi,

How does one change the boot order in a XEN VM? I tried pushing F2 and
DEL when starting the VM to get the BIOS but no joy. This works with
VMware.

Thanks
Bob Crandell

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What “disks” does your VM see currently? Have you tried adding a ‘hdc’
as your other drive (ISO/optical or whatever) to see if it auto-selects
it? Full virtualization or paravirtualization?

Good luck.
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On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:24:02 +0000, ab wrote:
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What “disks” does your VM see currently? Have you tried adding a ‘hdc’
as your other drive (ISO/optical or whatever) to see if it auto-selects
it? Full virtualization or paravirtualization?

Good luck.[/color]
It see hda (boot drive) and hdb (cdrom). It is paravirtualization. I
want to boot from hdb.

Thanks

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On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:24:02 +0000, ab wrote:
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What “disks” does your VM see currently? Have you tried adding a ‘hdc’
as your other drive (ISO/optical or whatever) to see if it auto-selects
it? Full virtualization or paravirtualization?

Good luck.[/color]
I found:

boot on floppy (a), hard disk (c), Network (n) or CD-ROM (d)

default: hard disk, cd-rom, floppy

#boot=“cda”
boot=“dca”

Didn’t help.

This isn’t an issue any more BTW. The client is just going to pull the
plug on this VM and deal with the fallout later.

Thanks
Bob

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[QUOTE=Bob Crandell;1754]
It see hda (boot drive) and hdb (cdrom). It is paravirtualization. I want to boot from hdb.

Thanks[/QUOTE]

Hi Bob,

Take a look at TID 3564240.
XEN: How to boot SLES para-virtual DomU’s into the Rescue System for disaster recovery