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Re: [Xen-devel] PV Grub Questions

To: "Samuel Thibault" <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel mailing list" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] PV Grub Questions
From: "Todd Deshane" <deshantm@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:34:19 -0400
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On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 4:57 AM, Samuel Thibault
<samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Todd Deshane, le Wed 27 Aug 2008 20:48:13 -0400, a écrit :
>> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Samuel Thibault
>> <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Todd Deshane, le Wed 27 Aug 2008 15:33:40 -0400, a écrit :
>> >> grubdom> boot
>> >> Cannot handle page request order 0!
>> >
>> > The message could be less verbose, but that should be it: IIRC you have
>> > only 64MB in your domain, that's actually not so much for building a PV
>> > domain.
>>
>> I gave it a bunch more memory and now it hangs try to boot at the same
>> point as before...
>>
>> <Boot Process>
>> RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
>> loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
>> Xen virtual console successfully installed as xvc0
>> Event-channel device installed.
>> netfront: Initialising virtual ethernet driver.
>> xen-vbd: registered block device major 3
>>  hda:
>
> Ok, is your dom0 kernel a Xen 3.3 kernel?  If yes, could you send me its
> configuration?
>

Yes a default make world build of Xen 3.3, config attached.

>> Do I need to pass the menu.lst file in the ramdisk option to see a grub
>> menu? Or should it detect the menu.lst within the guest disk image file?
>>
>> Is there a simple example that I could download and work with to get
>> a sense of a working PV GRUB example?
>
> Errr, did you read /usr/share/doc/xen/README.stubdom?  And there is a
> PV-GRUB example in /etc/xen/xmexample.pv-grub.
>

I just read the <xen source tree>/stubdom/README file, particularly focusing
on the PV-GRUB section. The description matches my understanding, but
the results of using it do not...

This README does not appear to be installed to
the system in /usr/share/doc/xen, is it expected to be?

I based my configuration directly from the  /etc/xen/xmexample.pv-grub that
you suggest. I think I mis-worded my request for an example. I suspect that
my problem is either the disk image or some of configuration issue, is there
a smallish disk image that you could make available for me to use with its
corresponding config file so that I could get a known working disk image
to narrow down the isssue?

Cheers,
Todd

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