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Re: Ability to view Ubuntu boot process in VNC console

 

Hi Andrii:

In this post we talk about it.
http://openstack.markmail.org/thread/tqza3vv4ap4out2q

Regards!
-- 
JuanFra


2013/2/14 Andrii Loshkovskyi <loshkovskyi@xxxxxxxxx>

> Hello,
>
> I tried setting the value with/without brackets and encountered the
> following error:
>
> Invalid output terminal "ttyS0"
>
> As far as I know I can check the kernel boot parameters this way:
>
> cat /proc/cmdline
> root=/dev/vda console=ttyS0 selinux=0
>
> The line above is same all of the time, even if I applied some new changes
> to the GRUB config.
>
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Joe Breu <joseph.breu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>>  Hello Andrii,
>>
>>  Can you try setting GRUB_TERMINAL to ttyS0, update the grub config, and
>> boot the image?
>>
>>   ---
>> Joseph Breu
>> Deployment Engineer
>> Rackspace Private Cloud
>> 210-312-3508
>>
>>  On Feb 14, 2013, at 8:11 AM, Andrii Loshkovskyi wrote:
>>
>>  Currently, when I boot up an Ubuntu virtual machine, the boot process
>> messages are not shown up in the VNC console. Everything that I see in the
>> console is "iPXE Booting from ROM...", black screen and login entry at the
>> end. I am using OpenStack Essex and my VM's image was built from Ubuntu
>> Server 12.04 LTS. I tried editing the GRUB config file /etc/default/grub
>> and updating configuraton with update-grub afterwards. Particularly, I made
>> sure there is no "quiet" option in the Linux command line parameters,
>> GRUB_TERMINAL=console is uncommented, etc.
>>
>>  The problem is it looks like Nova does not use this GRUB config at all.
>> Any changes applied to the GRUB config are not visible on the boot process.
>> I studied documentation and googled a lot trying to understand how the VMs
>> boot process works in OpenStack but with no success.
>>
>>  I need your help on this issue. I would appreciate if someone shares an
>> advice how to view the boot messages while booting up a VM or point me to
>> the proper documentation. Let me know if you need more details on my
>> configuration as it looks to be a rather general issue.
>>
>>  Thank you for your help.
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>
>
> --
> Kind regards,
> Andrii Loshkovskyi
>
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