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bluevobler - 15.08.2006, 04:53 Uhr
Titel: Not much Zen in Xen (yet)

Xen has been in Sid for sometime now. but there has been very little reaction so far in this forum. I'd love to now if somebody has succided in installing it and making it work.
I foud this fairly comprehensive article by Steve Kemp #http://debian-administration.org/articles/396# and decided to follow it. Everything went smoothly untill I had to make Xen kernel packages bootable

Code:

root@box2:/home/richard# mkinitrd  -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.16-2-xen-686 2.6.16-2-xen-686

/usr/sbin/mkinitrd: line 1454: mkext2fs: command not found

This is my /boot/grub/menu.list

Code:

title      Xen 3.0-i386 / Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.16-2-xen-686

root      (hd0,0)

kernel      /boot/xen-3.0-i386.gz   noreboot

module      /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-2-xen-686 root=/dev/sda1 ro 

module          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.16-2-xen-686

ramdisk_size=100000 lang=us apm=power-off nomce vga=791 console=tty0

boot

Grub lists the Xen kernel just fine at the srart-up but will not boot it.
I get the error message

Code:

Error 15: File not found.

I run fully upgraded Easter Edition with 2.6.17.8-slh-up-1 kernel.
My HD Western Digital -80Gb SATA. My processor - Athlon 3700.
Any suggestions and understanding will be greatly appreciated Traurig

Thanks
Richard

mzilikazi - 16.08.2006, 05:42 Uhr
Titel: RE: Not much Zen in Xen (yet)

Code:

apt-get remove initrd-tools ; dpkg -P initrd-tools ; apt-get install initrd-tools

bluevobler - 18.08.2006, 17:08 Uhr
Titel: Not much Zen in Xen (yet)

Hi mzilikazi,
Thanks for all your help. Just had a chance to test your suggestions. A definete progress. Managed to get the booting started this time, but there seems to be some glitches left to work out.
This is the message from Grub.

Code:

initrd-tools : 0.1.84.1

mount : unknown file system type  'devfs'

SCSI subsystem initialized

umount : devfs: not mounted

pivot_root :No such file or directory

/sbin/init : 432 : cannot open dev/console : No such file

Kernel panic - not syncing : Attempted to kill ninit !

.
The "unknown file system type " throws me out completely.
Hopefully some people smarter the me will be able to figure it out.

Thanks

Richard

jackiebrown - 26.08.2006, 00:50 Uhr
Titel: RE: Not much Zen in Xen (yet)

New package entered unstable today named xen-linux-system-2.6.17-2-xen

That might help

jackiebrown - 26.08.2006, 02:42 Uhr
Titel: RE: Not much Zen in Xen (yet)

Actually, I get to something like "trace disabled" and then my machine reboots

der-brumm-baer - 15.10.2006, 17:52 Uhr
Titel: Re: RE: Not much Zen in Xen (yet)

jackiebrown hat folgendes geschrieben::

Actually, I get to something like "trace disabled" and then my machine reboots

I´ve got the same problem working on Debian Sarge in a VM-Ware
I`ve installed the XEN-Packages from Debian-Backports.

Did you find an answer for the rebooting problem?

best regards
der brumm-baer

jackiebrown - 15.10.2006, 20:00 Uhr
Titel: RE: Re: RE: Not much Zen in Xen (yet)

I never found an answer.

Sorry

jackiebrown - 25.10.2006, 00:36 Uhr
Titel: RE: Re: RE: Not much Zen in Xen (yet)

this might help
http://blog.thedebianuser.org/?p=166