Xen users - Apr 2008 - help needed

I need a consultant to help me install the latest Kernel 3.2. I compiled it
successfully under Centos 5.1 64 Bits, did "make world", "make
install", end
it did not show any error. I changed the grub.conf file as per the README,
but the machine did not boot. There is must be something missing in the
instructions. If somebody who can help me, I will pay him/her via paypal.
Has anybody succeded installing it under Centos 5.1 64 bits?

Philip Orleans venefax@gmail.com

 



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>I need a consultant to help me install the latest Kernel 3.2. I compiled it
successfully under Centos 5.1 64 >Bits, did “make world”, “make install”, end
it did not show any error. I changed the grub.conf file as per the >README,
but the machine did not boot. There is must be something missing in the
instructions. If somebody >who can help me, I will pay him/her via paypal.
Has anybody succeded installing it under Centos 5.1 64 bits?
>Philip Orleans venefax@gmail.com
Phillip,
That''s what the forums are for! Anyway, grab the srpm. It compiles
easily and will get you going asap if you don''t want to use the distro
version. If the tarball compiled version did work, and you have it all right,
you may have hardware that the xen kernel doesn''t recognize. What are
you running on?

Thanks,
jlc

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Philip,
> I need a consultant to help me install the latest Kernel 3.2. I compiled it
> successfully under Centos 5.1 64 Bits, did "make world",
"make install",
> end it did not show any error.
Good start.
> I changed the grub.conf file as per the 
> README, but the machine did not boot.
We''ll need more information here.  Do you have physical access to the
machine?
If so, did you see anything interesting on the screen?

You should see:
1) computer''s BIOS screen
2) Grub menu
3) Xen''s initial bootup text (including the Xen version in big friendly
letters).  This will scroll past very quickly.
4) dom0 Linux''s kernel bootup text.  This will probably scroll quickly
too.
5) dom0 Linux''s userspace startup text.

New Xen installs often fail at point 3 (if the grub configuration is somehow 
broken, or Xen was not successfully installed), point 4 (for various 
configuration reasons), or point 5.

If the failure is at point 3 (you''re seeing grub but you''re
not seeing Xen
start) then we''ll need to verify your Xen install and grub config.

If your failure is at point 4 then the system may be rebooting before you have 
a chance to see what''s gone wrong.  If you add "noreboot" to
Xen''s
commandline in your grub config then the system will pause at this point and 
allow you to inspect what''s gone wrong.  You''ll need to power
cycle the
machine to reboot it.
> There is must be something missing in 
> the instructions. If somebody who can help me
Unfortunately, the instructions are sometimes better treated as
"guidelines"
rather than a definite sequence of steps to reach a working system.  Open 
Source developers tend not to produce good documentation :-(
> I will pay him/her via 
> paypal. Has anybody succeded installing it under Centos 5.1 64 bits?
Assuming you''ve not found a consultant to hire privately, lets try and
work
through this on the mailing list a bit.  Any troubleshooting we succeed in 
doing should be useful to any consultant you might hire, especially if he / 
she is working remotely.

Cheers,
Mark

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