RE: [Xen-users] Missing initial RAM disk after Xen installation

["Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Mark Wilson
> Sent: 29 May 2007 13:56
> To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Xen-users] Missing initial RAM disk after Xen installation
> 
> After installing the Xen RPMs on SUSE Enterprise Linux 
> Desktop, I edited /boot/grub/menu.lst file to include:
> 
> title SUSE with Xen (2.6.18-xen_3.1.0)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /boot/xen-3.1.0.gz
> module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-xen_3.1.0 ro root=/dev/hda2
> module /boot/initrd-2.6.18-xen_3.1.0.img
> 
> (based on the advice in the readme file at 
> http://www.xensource.com/download/docs/README-xen31-hostrpms.txt)
> 
> Unfortunately this fails at the initrd stage with GRUB error 
> 15 (file not found). Digging further, I can see that although 
> a symlink has been created from initrd-2.6-xen.img to 
> initrd-2.6.18-xen_3.1.0.img, initrd-2.6.18-xen_3.1.0.img does 
> not seem to exist. 
> 
> I think I've found out why the image is missing, but I'm 
> still stuck! After removing Xen and the Xen kernel, then 
> reinstalling in a terminal (rather than by double-clicking 
> the RPM file), I saw this:
> 
> hostname:/home/mark/Desktop # rpm -ivh xen-3.1.0-1.i686.rpm
> Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
> 1:xen ########################################### [100%]
> hostname:/home/mark/Desktop # rpm -ivh 
> kernel-xen-2.6.18-3.1.0.i686.rpm
> Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
> 1:kernel-xen ########################################### [100%]
> /sbin/mkinitrd: line 2958: 
> /boot/initrd-2.6.18-xen_3.1.0.img/etc/fstab: No such file or directory
> No '/' mountpoint specified in 
> /boot/initrd-2.6.18-xen_3.1.0.img/etc/fstab
> 
I believe this is a problem caused by a bad "mkinitrd" script - I've
seen it once before. Try looking in the archive on www.xensource.com for
this mailing list. 

--
Mats

> It seems that there is a problem with the RPM... Please can 
> anyone help me work around this?
> 
> Cheers, Mark 
> 



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