Fedora xen - May 2006 - RE: Re: [Fedora-ia64-list] Xen and Xen0 boot on FC6 IPF/Xen

Hi Aron/Fenghua,
	Because FC5''s mkinitrd is 5.0.32-1 and cpio is 2.6.11.2.1, we
installed RPMs to FC5 directly, it should create initrd dynamically, we can boot
to xen0 and start xend now, but when creating domains, we got the block status.
When install to rhel4, we should upgrade mkinitrd and cpio first, am I right?
Thanks
-Xiantao
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-xen-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-xen-bounces@redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of Yu, Fenghua
> Sent: 2006年5月26日 0:04
> To: Aron Griffis
> Cc: fedora-xen@redhat.com
> Subject: [Fedora-xen] Re: [Fedora-ia64-list] Xen and Xen0 boot on FC6
IPF/Xen
> 
> On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 09:27:11AM -0400, Aron Griffis wrote:
> > Hi Fenghua,
> >
> > Yu, Fenghua wrote: [Wed May 24 2006, 11:10:13PM EDT]
> > > Hypervisor and Xen0 from latest IPF/Xen rpms can boot on
FC6/Montecito now.
> > > Minor changes needed in configuration and initrd to pass kernel
panic. And
> xend
> > > will cause system hang. I disable it for the time being. So we
can focus
> more
> > > on XenU.
> >
> > This is great news!  :-)
> >
> > Could you share those minor changes?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Aron
> >
> > P.S. I moved this conversation to fedora-xen since we''re
trying to
> > consolidate discussion around fedora-xen-ia64 on that list.
> 
> The configuration change is just copying xen.gz from /boot to
> /boot/efi/efi/redhat.
> 
> The kernel panic happens in initrd when mounting root devices. There is no
real
> initrd change. My build is working. I''m using mkinitrd-5.0.32-1
and
> cpio-2.6-11.2.1. Could you check yours? I think actually cpio causes the
issue
> since kernel panic goes away after I re-archieve your initrd with my cpio.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -Fenghua
> 
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Zhang, Xiantao wrote:  [Thu May 25 2006, 08:52:25PM EDT]
> 	Because FC5''s mkinitrd is 5.0.32-1 and cpio is 2.6.11.2.1, we
> 	installed RPMs to FC5 directly, it should create initrd
> 	dynamically, we can boot to xen0 and start xend now, but when
> 	creating domains, we got the block status. When install to
> 	rhel4, we should upgrade mkinitrd and cpio first, am I right?
I don''t know about RHEL4.  If possible, I would recommend using FC5 or
Rawhide systems instead of trying to retrofit RHEL4.  Do you have
a reason to use it instead of Fedora for testing?

Aron