I am having problems with installing centos from an image and below is the process i went thru . Could somebody outthere help with identifying my problem root@virtualintranet /# xe vdi-create sm-config:type=raw sr-uuid=b303be09-6a32-8d94-d248-7551860fbc3f name-label="Centos-Vdi" virtual-size=20GiB type=user eefa9066-a991-44c3-b537-d20d65f3d10c root@virtualintranet /# xe vbd-create vm-uuid=3c63c943-32b3-b343-0f90-343a9df6b72e device=0 vdi-uuid=eefa9066-a991-44c3-b537-d20d65f3d10c bootable=true type=disk mode=RW 0d36d882-80e8-159f-7c43-b3111676eec2 root@virtualintranet /# lvscan inactive ''/dev/VG_XenStorage-b303be09-6a32-8d94-d248-7551860fbc3f/LV-eefa9066-a991-44c3-b537-d20d65f3d10c'' http://20.00 GB <http://20.00%20gb/> inherit root@virtualintranet /# lvchange -a y /dev/VG_XenStorage-b303be09-6a32-8d94-d248-7551860fbc3f/LV-eefa9066-a991-44c3-b537-d20d65f3d10c root@virtualintranet /]# kpartx -a /dev/VG_XenStorage-b303be09-6a32-8d94-d248-7551860fbc3f/LV-eefa9066-a991-44c3-b537-d20d65f3d10c Note my centos image is under /domu/ centos.5-5.x86-64.20100923.img root@virtualintranet /# dd if=/domu/centos.5-5.x86-64.20100923.img of=/dev/VG_XenStorage-b303be09-6a32-8d94-d248-7551860fbc3f/LV-eefa9066-a991-44c3-b537-d20d65f3d10c bs=1M count=10240 10001+0 records in 10001+0 records out 10486808576 bytes (10 GB) copied, 76.3104 seconds, 137 MB/s root@virtualintranet /# mount -o loop domu/centos.5-5.x86-64.20100923.img centos/ root@virtualintranet etc# cat fstab /dev/VG_XenStorage-b303be09-6a32-8d94-d248-7551860fbc3f/LV-eefa9066-a991-44c3-b537-d20d65f3d10c / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 root@virtualintranet grub# cat grub.conf default=0 timeout=10 title vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.11.4.el5xen root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.11.4.el5xen console=hvc0 root=/dev/sda1 ro root@virtualintranet xen# cat centos.5-5.x86-64.20100923.pygrub.cfg bootloader = "/usr/bin/pygrub" memory = 1024 name = "CVG" disk vif vcpus=1 root "/dev/VG_XenStorage-b303be09-6a32-8d94-d248-7551860fbc3f/LV-eefa9066-a991-44c3-b537-d20d65f3d10c" extra = "fastboot" root@virtualintranet /# xe vm-start uuid=3c63c943-32b3-b343-0f90-343a9df6b72e root@virtualintranet /# xentop No Virtual Machine shown root@virtualintranet /# xe-edit-bootloader -n "CVG" -p1 -f /grub/grub.conf Creating dom0 VBD: 46275e93-4308-6be7-ed85-1b0a3ab712f9 Plugging VBD: Waiting for /dev/xvda1: .....Device /dev/xvda1 not found. You must specify the correct partition number with -p Unplugging VBD: . done root@virtualintranet /# xe vm-param-set PV-bootloader=eliloader uuid=3c63c943-32b3-b343-0f90-343a9df6b72e root@virtualintranet /# xe vm-start uuid=3c63c943-32b3-b343-0f90-343a9df6b72e Error code: UNSUPPORTED_INSTALL_METHOD Error parameters: other-config:install-repository was not set to an appropriate value, and this is required for the selected distribution type., , root@virtualintranet /# xe vm-param-set uuid=3c63c943-32b3-b343-0f90-343a9df6b72e other-config:install-repository=cdrom root@virtualintranet /# xe vm-start uuid=3c63c943-32b3-b343-0f90-343a9df6b72e Error code: INVALID_SOURCE Error parameters: cdrom repo /dev/xvda, , _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users