Re: [Xen-users] Lenny 2.26.1 xenu vmlinuz-2.6.28.7 Hangs Waiting for root file system

[Thomas Goirand <thomas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
> Cc-ing the list, as I think that's what your intention was when you
> wrote "All," :)
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Barry van Someren
> <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> Does anybody have any success installing Lenny as a DomU in a CentOS Dom0?
>> I've been chipping away at this for a while, but unfortunately I'm not
>> very familiar with Debian.
>> So far I've tried doing this as a PV install using Xen-tools and debootstrap.
> 
> Try this, should also work for Debian by changing the debootstrap parameter
> http://bderzhavets.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/debootstrap-intrepid-server-pv-domu-at-xen-331-centos-52-dom0-all-64-bit/
> 
> I tested it some time ago with debootstrap from EPEL
> (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL)
> If I remembered correctly I only had to make minor changes (like
> setting up static IP instead of DHCP).

Hi,

Our dtc-xen software has a fully automated way to get CentOS installed
in a PV Xen domU.

>From our man page:

dtc_reinstall_os [ -v ] VPS_NUMBER HDD_SIZE MEMORY_SIZE IP_ADDRESS [
DISTRO ] [ lvm|loopback ]

Example:

dtc_reinstall_os 16 15360 256 '66.2.45.2 66.2.45.3' centos lvm

This  will setup the VM called xen16, build it’s startup file in
/etc/xen/xen16 with a vif containing ip=66.2.45.2 66.2.45.3 and 256 MB
of RAM, setting-up a centos stable  operating  system with  66.2.45.2
setup  as  eth0  IP  address  (66.2.45.3  is  to be added later on
manually in /etc/sysconfig later).

It uses Yum, so it takes the latest packages of base from network, which
is by far superior than using an image. But yum unfortunately is broken
in Lenny. See my bug report in the Debian BTS:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496137

So you shall use the patched version we have from our repository. In the
source repository, there is an up-to-date (I mean, same as upstream of
yum) version, but it's not released yet. We wish to have this uploaded
to lenny proposed updates, we are currently working on this.

Thomas

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