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

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Missing initial RAM disk after Xen installation
From: Mark Wilson <markw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 14:31:49 +0100
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Thanks Mats - I think I've found the message you referred to:
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2007-04/msg00367.html
however it reads as though the only workaround would be to compile from
source - i.e. dump the RPMs and download the tarballs.  As a Linux newbie,
I'm a little anxious about this so I just wanted to confirm that would be
the recommended approach before I get in too deep.

Mark


> From: "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 14:58:59 +0200
> To: Mark Wilson <markw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Conversation: [Xen-users] Missing initial RAM disk after Xen installation
> Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Missing initial RAM disk after Xen installation
> 
>  
> 
>> -----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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