GCE Instance stuck Booting from Hard Disk 0

[Yurii Krainiuk]

Hi 

My instance stuck on Booting from Hard Disk 0... after restart

Tried restore\create new instance from snapshot

Tried  to check file system and grub settings

Serial port 1 (console) output:

SeaBIOS (version 1.8.2-google)

Total RAM Size = 0x0000000200000000 = 8192 MiB

CPUs found: 2     Max CPUs supported: 2

found virtio-scsi at 0:3

virtio-scsi vendor='Google' product='PersistentDisk' rev='1' type=0 removable=0

virtio-scsi blksize=512 sectors=20971520 = 10240 MiB

virtio-scsi vendor='Google' product='PersistentDisk' rev='1' type=0 removable=0

virtio-scsi blksize=512 sectors=52428800 = 25600 MiB

drive 0x000f2440: PCHS=0/0/0 translation=lba LCHS=1024/255/63 s=20971520

drive 0x000f2400: PCHS=0/0/0 translation=lba LCHS=1024/255/63 s=52428800

Sending Seabios boot VM event.

Booting from Hard Disk 0...

[Fady (Google Cloud Platform)]

This most probably means that the boot-loader is corrupt or missing. So you seem on the right track verifying GRUB. Now you can try interacting with the serial port console or your last resort is to attach this disk or its snapshot version to a new instance as an additional (none-boot) disk and try debug it. Maybe re-installing GRUB on the desired partition would help along with this guide about GRUB config . I am afraid it will not be easy to apply a mitigation here. Most probably you will have to make use of a fresh instance as an alternative and transfer the existing data from the problematic disk.  I hope this helps.

[Yurii Krainiuk]

Re-install GRUB and GRUB config did not help

I've seen a lot of requests like mine. 

It seems it is virtualization system bug. Have seen error like this at my KVM test PC.

Transfer data to another instance is the only way i see...

[Adria Bravo García]

Hello,

Can you please confirm if transferring data to another instance has fixed your issue?

cheers,

[Yurii Krainiuk]

Hello

I've had no another option.

It is not way to resolve  "Instance stuck Booting from Hard Disk 0" issue

But we need to move and work...

So I do not need help with issue anymore.

[Adria Bravo García]

Thanks for your reply, closing this thread.

[Giovanni Tirloni]

I know this is a very old thread but I've found it while looking for a solution to the "Booting from Hard Disk 0" issue.

After many hours of unsuccessful attempts to fix this, the workaround was to stop the instance, detach the boot disk, save, edit instance, attach boot disk back and start it.