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Re: [Xen-users] Installing a Debian Etch DomU using debootstrap

On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 15:58 +0200, Thomas wrote:
> Registering block device major 3
>  hda: unknown partition table
>  hdb: unknown partition table
at least xen sees the discs now.

> I am pretty sure, that /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 must be used in Xen.
no, i really don't think so.

i tested the debootstrap procedure on my xen server and it works fine.

i did:

- create a logical volume with 10G
- create an ext3 fs on this lv
- mount the lv somewhere (/mnt/loop in my case)
- debootstrap the new lv with: debootstrap lenny /mnt/loop \
  ftp://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/
- mount /proc to /mnt/loop/proc, chroot into /mnt/loop and run
  dselect to install the rest of the required software
- exit chroot, unmount /mnt/loop/proc
- rsync -a /lib/modules/2.6.18-6-xen-amd64 /mnt/loop/lib/modules/
- unmount /mnt/loop

i booted this domU with the following config:

kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-xen-amd64"
ramdisk = "/boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-6-xen-amd64"
builder='linux'
memory = 256
name = "centauri"
vcpus = 1
vif = [ 'mac=00:16:3e:14:07:88, bridge=xenlan' ]
disk = [ 'phy:/dev/babylon/xen_test,hda,w' ]
hostname="centauri"
root = "/dev/hda ro"
extra = "3 noirqdebug"

on_poweroff = 'destroy'
on_reboot   = 'restart'
on_crash    = 'restart'

everything went fine, the domu successfully booted into runlevel 3.

maybe you should give the netinstall method a try?

kr,
tom.

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