Re: [Xen-users] Re: 3.0.2x as a debian package?

[Morten Christensen <mc-xen@xxxxx>]

Matthew Palmer skrev den 07-05-2006 01:56:
> On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 08:13:29PM +0200, Morten Christensen wrote:
>   
> > >  
> > >       
> > > > On 5/5/06, Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >    
> > > >         
> > > > > Hopefully never.  3.0.2 (+some extras from hg mainline) is now in Debian
> > > > > unstable, and appropriately patched kernels are now available as well.     
> > > > >           
> > I have tried to install the xen-k7-kernel on Debian unstable, but I 
> > cannot boot it. It panics with an error about unable to mount root fs.
> > My setup is as simple as possible with 1 partition, ext3 and no LVM.
> >     
> Debian kernels all need an initrd to boot.  For some reason, the Xen kernels
> don't have the necessary bling in their install scripts to automatically
> build the initrd at package install time (one of the niggles I'm going to
> have a look at next week at work).  So, you need to run
>
> mkinitramfs -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.16-1-xen-k7 2.6.16-1-xen-k7
>
> And then add that initrd.img to your grub config:
>
>   
> > /boot/grub/menu.lst is
> > title      Xen
> > root     (hd0,0)
> > kernel   /boot/xen-3.0-i386.gz  dom0_men=256M
> >     
> > module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-1-xen-k7 root=/dev/hda1 ro
> >     
> module /boot/initrd.img-2.6.16-1-xen-k7
>
> - Matt
>   
That did the trick. Thank you for your help.


--
Morten Christensen


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