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Remove image requirement for boot from volume

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Section previously implied an image had to be specified
when booting from volume. This was true previously but
has since been corrected and thus it is not necessary
to specify an image to successfully boot from a volume.

Change-Id: I85d61726f00ece33e453ad739c4955b5f8082353
Closes-Bug: #1269767
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Stephen Gordon 2014-01-19 17:38:51 -05:00
parent acc984a12a
commit 5ae35e9cd7
1 changed files with 2 additions and 8 deletions
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doc/common/section_cli_nova_boot_from_volume.xml
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@ -145,12 +145,6 @@
</tr>
</tbody>
</informaltable>
<note>
<para>You must specify an image when booting from a volume,
even though the specified image is not used. Otherwise, the
<literal>Attempt to boot from volume - no image
supplied</literal> error is returned.</para>
</note>
<para>You can also attach a swap disk on boot with the
<parameter>--swap</parameter> flag, or you can attach an
ephemeral disk on boot with the
@ -158,13 +152,13 @@
<para>For example, you might enter the following command to boot
from a volume. The volume is not deleted when the instance is
terminated:</para>
<screen><prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>nova boot --flavor 2 --image e0b7734d-2331-42a3-b19e-067adc0da17d \
<screen><prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>nova boot --flavor 2 \
--block_device_mapping vda=3195a5a7-fd0d-4ac3-b919-7ba6cbe11d46:::0 myInstanceFromVolume</userinput>
<computeroutput>+-------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| Property | Value |
+-------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| OS-EXT-STS:task_state | scheduling |
| image | cirros-0.3.1-x86_64-uec |
| image | |
| OS-EXT-STS:vm_state | building |
| OS-EXT-SRV-ATTR:instance_name | instance-00000003 |
| flavor | m1.small |