Re: [Xen-users] Booting pv-ready distro installer.iso as Xen PV DomU drops to grub prompt?

[lyndat3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hi Sarah

On Thu, Apr 9, 2015, at 02:30 PM, Sarah Newman wrote:
> On 04/09/2015 01:57 PM, lyndat3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > 
> > How do I get past the grub prompt to the usual installer opened in a VNC 
> > window?
> 
> You can probably follow existing instructions for booting the opensuse 
> installer using grub2 with
> the exception of replacing the typical device references with xen devices.
> 
> Tab-complete is your friend; for example under grub2 (unless you are running 
> a very recent version)
> xen block devices have to be named 'xen/<diskname>' not 'hd<num>' .


First, a typo from above.

I'm actually using

disk = ['/home/lt/work/openSUSE-13.2-DVD-x86_64.iso,raw,hdc,ro,cdrom',]

At re-exec of  xlcreate ..., at grub prompt, autocomplete leads to

grub> root (xen/hd
Possible partitions are:

Device xen/hdc: Filesystem type iso9660 - Label `openSUSE-13.2-DVD-x86_640051' 
- Last modification time 2014-10-27 14:56:02 Monday, UUID
2014-10-27-14-56-02-00 - Sector size 512B - Total size 4569088KiB
        Partition xen/hdc,msdos1: Filesystem type fat, UUID 5F67-0F78 -
Partition start at 1792KiB - Total size 4032KiB
        Partition xen/hdc,msdos2: Filesystem type iso9660 - Label
`openSUSE-13.2-DVD-x86_640051' - Last modification time 2014-10-27 14:55:49
Monday, UUID 2014-10-27-14-55-49-00 - Partition start at 5824KiB - Total size
4563264KiB

Not sure what to do with that.

The 

 Partition xen/hdc,msdos1: Filesystem type fat, UUID 5F67-0F78 -

looks like a UEFI boot partition.

Does something need to get added to the DomU config?

I thought the idea behind pvgrub2 is to auto-discover paths to kernel & initrd.

Still a bit lost.

LT

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