Booting a guest from cd/iso

I have 2 questions here...
I have oracle vm server 2 running, there is no oracle vm manager set up. I installed oracle vm manager 2.2, however I am unable to add my vm server to it, it keeps saying my utility username/password is incorrect, I'm using the root username and password. I read somewhere that ovm uses ssh to connect to the vm server, so I made sure root has permission and also made sure it's running on the default port. However I still can't connect, I have also tried ovs-agent and the agent password, which won't work.
My 2nd question is, how can I boot one of the guest vm's from an iso or cd? I want to run a rescue cd on one of the vm's....how would I do this in command line...I have the iso copied upto the repository.

Yes but in 2.2 you need to set up a server to run all 3 roles, utility server, virtualization manager(or something like that), and master server, I can connect fine with the agent password for the virtualization server, it's the utility server that is failing, I tried root, ovm-agent and the agent password, I even created a new user with ssh rights, but it keeps telling me username/password invalid(only for the utility server role)

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Hi Alex,
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Yosemite 10.10.1 Bootcamp Installation Windows 8.1 from an ISO

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I input that into mac terminal while running os? And then you'd like me to post the results on this discussion board?
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I'm about to head out to celebrate a birthday, but I will post back here in about 14 hours.
Enjoy the party!
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Can't boot G5 even from OS install disk. Help?

I've trolled the message boards 25 pages deep and searched all the "Can't boot my G5" threads and still haven't found anyone describing what my machine is doing so thought I'd start a new thread in the hopes someone can help me out.
Ok I have a G5 dual processor machine. (Power PC chip, not Intel) Things went bad when I tried to do an Archive and Install of Leopard (OS 10.5) The install looked as normal until I got to one minute left on the install. At that point the install never progressed. I thought maybe it was doing some behind the scenes processing and decided to leave it over night. The next day my machine was still hung on that One minute left. So obviously it was a failure. Of course now the problem is I have an install that never completed of the OS and so that partition is, I assume, unbootable. Wiped away the Tiger OS and did a 99% install of Leopard. So I had to shut down by holding the power button.
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Bad motherboard? Any ideas? Because I'm all out of ideas.

Brother, Sound74, I thought I was the only one pulling the hair out of my chest one by one the past two days. Your situation is very similar to mine, and I'm just as clueless as you are. I started getting kernel panic screens, then nothing on boot, until finally I brought it to the local genius bar. They ran all the usual software/hardware tests, updated Tiger to 10.4.11, recommended I buy Leopard and do an erase-install. My computer, of course, was working absolutely fine by this point. I bought Leopard, came home, backed everything up, then tried to install the new OS. Like in your case, it just up and quit half-way through. Screen went black and a "No DVI Signal" message came on my display (it does this when I turn it on without first turning on the computer).
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Nothing. Zip. I can't safe boot, I can't boot from the installer disc, etc. The only thing I can do is the option-key thing whereby you choose the startup disc. And of course, it only gives the Leopard install disc as an option, because now the entire HD has been erased! But when I choose the Leopard disc, of course it doesn't work.
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Keep me posted on any solutions you discover, and I'll do the same.
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2012 iMac 27" fails to boot AND wake from sleep

Hi all,
My 2012 iMac has recently started giving my trouble when booting and waking from sleep.
When booting - A normal power up results in the apple logo screen being stuck, then I have to hold down the power button for a few seconds until power off, then i power it back up and the computer boots up normally. NOTE: only at the second time does the computer succeed in getting past the apple logo screen to the sign in screen.
Waking from Sleep - When ever the mac goes to sleep he doesn’t seem to be able to wake up. Usually stuck on a black screen with just the spinning wheel shown. At times i waited more then an hour to see if he can get passed the black screen but in vain.
Other then that the mac works fine.
Both issues started roughly two weeks ago and roughly at the same time.
My mac is mostly used for work, I'm familiar with computers so I am trying to be extra careful with installing weird applications but you could never know..
SPEC:
Late 2012 iMac 27'' - 3.4 Ghz i7.
16GB RAM.
1TB Fusion drive.
2GB NVIDIA GTX 680MX
Wired keyboard and a Magic mouse.
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Boot to Recovery and Repair Disk/Permissions.
Safe Boot.
SMC reset.
PRAM reset.
* The first two produced a single case of a normal start up, but after a shut down the problem remains.
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[SOLVED] Unable to Boot Windows 7 from GRUB

I recently reinstalled Arch onto my laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad t520) and have been having problems with Grub. For the last week I've been having trouble getting it to run grub at boot at all, only being able to run windows 7 by flagging it as the bootable drive. The other day I finally got it to boot into grub, and from grub I can boot into Arch. However, I can not boot into windows 7 through grub. When I attempt to, it throws an error:
Invalid EFI file path
I'm somewhat new to arch, and especially new to efi bootloading and such. Right now the only way I can get into windows is either booting from the arch install disk > boot other os and specifying partition 2 (where I have windows installed) or by pressing f12 at boot. When I do this (not sure what the term is, if anyone knows please tell me), it brings up a menu asking where I want to boot with "arch_efi" "cd drive" "Hard drive" etc. I choose hard drive and it will then boot to windows by default. Booting normally takes me to grub where I can boot into arch but not windows. If there's any more info you need please let me know and I'll try to provide it. Thanks in advance.
Also, here is my current partition setup
/dev/sda1 /boot/efi
/dev/sda2 Windows7
/dev/sda3 Extended partition containing sda 5,6, & 7
/dev/sda4 swap
/dev/sda5 /boot
/dev/sda6 /
/dev/sda7 /home
UPDATE
Terminator seems to be right (still on a roll!), so I wiped the partition I had grub on, removed grub, and installed syslinux. Now I have another problem that I'm hoping can be solved in the same thread to avoid another. It boots to syslinux no problem, and I can boot to windows from there all good, but when I select arch I get:
Root device mounted successfully but /sbin/init does not exist
I haven't been able to look for solutions too much on my own, but any help would be appreciated, thank you.
Last edited by IamFuzzles (2012-08-22 04:20:56)

Terminator wrote:If I understand it correctly, what you are trying is impossible: you are trying to boot windows using UEFI on a disk with MBR partitioning. Windows 7 only supports UEFI on discs with GPT partitioning but AFAIK, extended partitions only exist in MBR partitioning.
i also saw this in the arch wiki, but i have a brand new lenovo ideapad y570 running windows 7 64-bit that i'm in the process of setting up for someone, and it has what i think is an efi system partition but the disk uses mbr partitioning. does anyone know why this might be, or is there a way i can verify that the system is actually being booted via bios-mbr?
Last edited by e_tank (2012-08-21 11:56:15)

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I bought a 2011 Mac Mini, which came with Lion installed. I thought maybe I could repartition it and have a Snow Leopard partition. So I repartitioned it (500gb split into two 250gb partitions). I named the new partition "SnowLeopard" just to make it easy for me to tell the difference.
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Because with both of the Mac MInis being active on the network, they both had the same computer and user name. So I renamed the newer Mac Mini to something completely different, and changed the password.
Unfortunately, now I cannot change any other setting in the System Settings that requires a password. While the newer Snow Leopard lets me log in with the new user and new password, whenever I try to click the "lock" icon to change something, I'm prompted for a username and password. Apparently this is some different username and password than either the new or old username/password.
I've tried various combinations of both: new user/old password, old user/new password, old user/old password, etc.
So if you do what I've done, be careful about changing the username and password on your cloned computer. I think it may be wiser to create a new user and then delete the old cloned users. I may just have to re-clone the old Mac Mini to the new one again.
If anyone has any ideas about this password conundrum, please pass along!

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Is it possible to boot windows solely from an external hard drive so that it does not affect the internal drive. I already know that you can partition the internal hard drive to do the very same. Idon't want to use any of the internal space to run windows so I'm asking if it is possible to use a flash drive or external drive through USB to run windows when it is plugged in.

Read https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5043762?start=0&tstart=0 to discover you can't do it.
Allan

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Well I am Rider and I have been a mac user for at least 8 years. By far these OS's are the most advanced I have ever seen and it blows every other OS out of the water. My dad bought a Powerbook G4 8 years ago and it lasted 3 years till the hard drive crashed. My dad had it taken out and we still have the Powerbook G4 under the bed. When we bought a new macbook that came with the install disk 10.5.2, I was wondering if there was any way to use a USB 16gb Flash Drive as a hard drive and start up disk.
I have tried sticking the Install Disk in the G4 and after it says choose language for primary install, it says 'Mac OS X cannot be installed on this computer'. It gives a few utilities to use such as Disk Utility, Start up Disk, Net Utility, etc.
So if anybody knows how I can boot a G4 from a USB using Mac OS X install disk 10.5.2, *PLEASE HELP*.
Thankyou,
Rider M.

Hi,
Since you are trying to boot from 10.5, post in the Leopard forum here.
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1225
Or the PowerBook forum here.
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=120
Carolyn

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I have a MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011) running OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2) and want to install windows 8 (x86) from an ISO file but do not know how to? Any ideas?
Thanks,
Andy

ios is a 100% digital image of a cd or dvd
one can copy it to a optical disc with free programs on all platforms

[Forum FAQ] Error 0xc0000428 when booting Windows 8 from Windows 7 BCD

Scenario
To better analyze this issue, I introduce my test environment firstly.
I have installed Windows 7 and Windows 8 in separate disks (Figure 1)
Disk1 (only one partition, C drive): storing BCD
Disk2 (only one partition, D drive): storing Win 7 system files
Disk3 (only one partition, E drive): storing Win 8 system files
Figure 1.
Then I performed the steps below to boot Windows 8:
Step 1: Boot the computer from Operation System installation media, then I formatted Disk1 to NTFS and activated it via Diskpart Command-Line Utility. You can use the commands
below in order to achieve that (Figure 2):
List volume
Select volume x
Format fs=ntfs quick
Active
Figure 2.
Step 2: I copied the boot files from Windows 7 disk via BCDboot command below:
Bcdboot d:\windows /s c:
Step 3: I edited the BCD file to add an entry for Windows 8 using the command below:
Bcdedit /store c:\boot\bcd /create /application osloader
Steps 4: Since the command above will create a GUID of a new boot object for Windows 8, we can use the following command to represent the GUID:
Bcdedit /store c:\boot\bcd /set {GUID} device partition=E:
Bcdedit /store c:\boot\bcd /set {GUID} osdevice partition=E:
Bcdedit /store c:\boot\bcd /set {GUID} description “win8”
Bcdedit /store c:\boot\bcd /set {GUID} path \windows\system32\winload.exe
Bcdedit /store c:\boot\bcd /set {GUID} systemroot \windows
Bcdedit /store c:\boot\bcd /displayorder {GUID} /addlast
Steps 5: I checked the BCD files by running bcdedit command. (Figure 3)
Figure 3.
Symptom
When I rebooted the computer and selected Windows 8 Operating System to boot, then I encountered the following error message (Figure 4):
File: \windows\system32\winload.exe
Status: 0xc0000428
Info: Windows cannot verify the digital signature for this file
Figure 4.
Cause
This issue is due to the bootmgr file, we cannot use the bootmgr file of Windows 7 to find the Windows 8 Operating System files.
Solution
According to my scenario, I just need to replace the bootmgr file with the bootmgr file residing in the root directory of Windows 8 Operating System.
If you want to replace it via the command prompt, it is necessary to un-hide the hidden file in the root directory of C and E drive before coping the file. You can use the
commands below to do that:
attrib c:\bootmgr -h -s
attrib e:\bootmgr -h -s
Copy e:\bootmgr c:\bootmgr /y
More information:
A Description of the Diskpart Command-Line Utility
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300415
BCDboot Command-Line Options
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/library/hh824874.aspx
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Cause
This issue is due to the bootmgr file, we cannot use the bootmgr file of Windows 7 to find the Windows 8 Operating System files.
The Windows 7 bootmgr can indeed boot Windows 8.
This is on a BIOS system
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVO5aeaKeeE
This is on a UEFI system
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3-K6Fyobz0
The Windows 8 bootmgr partially loads Windows 8 before offering the boot menu. By choosing Windows 7, the system must do a reboot. Using the Windows 7 bootmgr, no reboot is required.
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