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KVM VPS installation fails: No bootable device: Guestfs.Error: /dev/sda2: Input/output error

Bato Tsydenov
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Applicable to:

  • SolusVM

Symptoms 

  • KVM VPS creation fails in SolusVM - VNC console shows the error:

    CONFIG_TEXT: No bootable device

  • The following error can be found in Build Log at SolusVM > Virtual Servers > VPS:

    CONFIG_TEXT: Fatal error: exception Guestfs.Error("copy_device_to_device: read: /dev/sda2: Input/output error")

Cause

Corrupted template on the slave node.

Resolution

  1. Access the the slave node via SSH
  2. Remove the corrupted template from:

    # rm -f /home/solusvm/kvm/template/{TEMPLATE}

    Where {TEMPLATE} is corrupted template file.

  3. Sync the template to the slave node using steps 6-8 from this article:
    How to add a KVM template on SolusVM?

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