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Re: [Xen-users] Trying to boot Xen: grub

Thanks for a quick reply. I am gonna chk that first thing tom on my m/c
setup( cant do it now, its in Univ) and let you know. What's the way of
booting thru command line?

-Thanks
Rachita

> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 7:58 AM,  <rachita@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I am trying to boot up Xen3.3 from ubuntu 8.
>>
>> i updated my grub file and now it looks like:
> add root line as below
>
>> ===========================================================================
>> title        Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-7-generic
>> uuid        3000525f-4d8d-4808-a452-e86d92280e90
>> kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic
>> root=UUID=3000525f-4d8d-4808-a452-e86d92280e90 ro quiet splash
>> initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic
>> quiet
>>
>> title        Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-7-generic (recovery mode)
>> uuid        3000525f-4d8d-4808-a452-e86d92280e90
>> kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic
>> root=UUID=3000525f-4d8d-4808-a452-e86d92280e90 ro  single
>> initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic
>>
>> title        Ubuntu 8.10, memtest86+
>> uuid        3000525f-4d8d-4808-a452-e86d92280e90
>> kernel        /boot/memtest86+.bin
>> quiet
>>
>> ## change for Xen
>> title Xen 3.3 / XenLinux 2.6
>     root     (hd0,4)
>> kernel /boot/xen-3.3.gz dom0_mem=262144
>> module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-xen root=/dev/sda5 ro console=tty0
>> module /boot/initrd
>> ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
>> ========================================================================
>> output for /etc/fstab is
>> ========================================================================
>> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
>> #
>> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
>> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
>> # /dev/sda5
>> UUID=e51f8717-4701-4d77-93d8-6728abbe3a5d /               ext3
>> relatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1
>> # /dev/sda6
>> UUID=7505b35f-b9fe-4df1-9ceb-7d73757bfda6 none            swap    sw
>>       0       0
>> /dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0
>>  0
>> =========================================================================
>>
>> and i get the error cannot find file
>> Am i doing anything wrong?
>
> HTH if not you can try booting using command line and browsing for
> needed file in root partition.
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Rachita
>>
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