Fedora xen - Nov 2006 - Re: FC6 w updates: xenguest-install.py hangs on Dell poweredge

On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, Paul Wouters wrote:
>>xenguest-install -n ftp.xtdnet.nl -f 
>>/children/ftp.xtdnet.nl/ftp.xtdnet.nl.img --nographics -p -l 
>> >ftp://dl.xs4all.nl/pub/mirror/fedora/core/6/i386/os/ -x
"noacpi noapic"
>>-r 1024
>>
>>
>>(the noapic noacpi was a test in the hope tht it would fix my issue).
>>
>>Also, I can still do xm shutdown and then I see the system halting.
>Using kpartx and losetup, I checked the filesystems. They hasn''t
been
>any writing apart from formatting done to the disk. So no logfiles of
>the anaconda installer to see what went wrong either :
>Paul
Hi,

I''m having exactly the same issue trying to load a new Xen guest
system. My
setup is:

AMD64, 1Gig RAM, SATA Hard disk
Fedora Core 6 x86_64 - Dom0

I''m using FC6 for the guest system also, installing to a partition of
the
hard disk - /dev/sda15
The installation source is an NFS mount of the FC6 DVD media (in the local 
DVD drive).

It gets to the "Starting install process.  This may take several
minutes..."
and just sits there. Every couple of minutes, the DVD drives spins up and 
reads but nothing else happens - like it''s stuck in a loop of some
kind. The
log files in /var/log/xen don''t give any clues.

Ian.

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On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, . . wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, Paul Wouters wrote:
>
> > >xenguest-install -n ftp.xtdnet.nl -f
> > >/children/ftp.xtdnet.nl/ftp.xtdnet.nl.img --nographics -p -l
> > > >ftp://dl.xs4all.nl/pub/mirror/fedora/core/6/i386/os/ -x
"noacpi noapic"
> > >-r 1024
> > >
> > >
> > >(the noapic noacpi was a test in the hope tht it would fix my
issue).
> > >
> > >Also, I can still do xm shutdown and then I see the system
halting.
>
> >Using kpartx and losetup, I checked the filesystems. They
hasn''t been
> >any writing apart from formatting done to the disk. So no logfiles of
> >the anaconda installer to see what went wrong either :
>
> >Paul
>
> Hi,
>
> I''m having exactly the same issue trying to load a new Xen guest
system. My
> setup is:
>
> AMD64, 1Gig RAM, SATA Hard disk
> Fedora Core 6 x86_64 - Dom0
>
> I''m using FC6 for the guest system also, installing to a partition
of the hard
> disk - /dev/sda15
> The installation source is an NFS mount of the FC6 DVD media (in the local
DVD
> drive).
>
> It gets to the "Starting install process.  This may take several
minutes..."
> and just sits there. Every couple of minutes, the DVD drives spins up and
> reads but nothing else happens - like it''s stuck in a loop of some
kind. The
> log files in /var/log/xen don''t give any clues.
I did not get past this yet. I ended up doing a manual yum install with yum:

yum -c yum-xen.conf --installroot=/mnt -y groupinstall Base

Though perhaps next time I''ll use a qemu install using the ISO DVD.

Paul