Hi Ishwar I have used Xen/Xenolinux with Fedora without any problems. I installed Fedora and the copied xen.gz and xenolinux.gz (albeit build from unstable source) into the /boot directory, adjusted the grub.conf in /boot/grub and it just works. Can you provide a console output? This would help to track down the problem you have. Could you try building xen and xenolinux and do the above steps for your fedora install? Rolf> -----Original Message----- > From: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:xen-devel- > admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of I RATTAN > Sent: 24 March 2004 13:06 > To: xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Xen-devel] xen-1.2 again > > > I am not having any luck with xen-1.2 install from CD. > > 1. I tried it on Vector-linux-4.0 by copying xen.gz, xenolinux.gz > and initrd.gz to /boot, made a grub floppy to boot it as: > > title xen/xenolinux > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/xen.gz dom0_mem=131072 noht nosmp noreboot > module /boot/xenolinux.gz root=/dev/hda1 ro console=tty0 > module /boot/initrd.gz > > system boots but has problems with /dev entries for fd0, cdrom etc > (same thing that I see under Mandrake-9.1), keeps on saying that > it not a block special device (ls -l /dev/fd0 does the entry with > b in forst column). > > So I decided to install Fedora-1 core (minimali install) and tried the > same thing as above and now the boot process keeps on trying to > find and mount CD-ROM (trying hda, hdb, hdc, hdd..) quits to shell > prompt. Looks like it is beacause fo xenolinux.gz (same is used to > boot from cdrom..). > > Can I get a working (not for cd-boot) xenolinux.gz: minimal config > of IDE disk and cdrom (is fine by me)? > > There was mention of making xen work with Debian? What is involved? > I may have time on my hands after first week of May.. > > -ishwar > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Neugebauer, Rolf wrote:> Hi Ishwar > > I have used Xen/Xenolinux with Fedora without any problems. I installed > Fedora and the copied xen.gz and xenolinux.gz (albeit build from > unstable source) into the /boot directory, adjusted the grub.conf in > /boot/grub and it just works.I just copied the xenolinux.gz from the xen-1.2 demodisk. I have do not have a serial console, so can list the last (visible part only): --- ... detects /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, /dev/hdc (CD-ROM) ok.. .. VFS Mounted Root (ext2 file system) Looking for CD-ROM at /dev/hda.. unable to identify CD-ROM format. mount failed - not found Looking for CD-ROM at /dev/hdb.. unable to identify CD-ROM format. Looking for CD-ROM at /dev/hdc.. mount failed - not found Looking for CD-ROM at /dev/hdd.. mount failed - not found //find-cd: /proc/scsi/scsi: No such file or directory --> repeats Looking for as above //find-cd:.. //find-cd:.. //find-cd:.. //find-cd: /proc/scsi/scsi: No such file or directory Unable to find CD-ROM and NFSDIR not specified bash# --- It is all I can get. BTW the root file system is ext3 and not ext2 (as displayed by boot message). -ishwar ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel
Actually, can you try the default initrd, ie. the one that comes with fedora and not the one from the xen demo cd? That is what I used and can imagine that the xen boot cd initrd tries to mount the cd Rolf> -----Original Message----- > From: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:xen-devel- > admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of I RATTAN > Sent: 24 March 2004 13:39 > To: Neugebauer, Rolf > Cc: xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] xen-1.2 again > > > > On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Neugebauer, Rolf wrote: > > > Hi Ishwar > > > > I have used Xen/Xenolinux with Fedora without any problems. I installed > > Fedora and the copied xen.gz and xenolinux.gz (albeit build from > > unstable source) into the /boot directory, adjusted the grub.conf in > > /boot/grub and it just works. > I just copied the xenolinux.gz from the xen-1.2 demodisk. I have do > not have a serial console, so can list the last (visible part only): > > --- > ... > detects /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, /dev/hdc (CD-ROM) ok.. > .. > VFS Mounted Root (ext2 file system) > Looking for CD-ROM at /dev/hda.. unable to identify CD-ROM format. > mount failed - not found > Looking for CD-ROM at /dev/hdb.. unable to identify CD-ROM format. > Looking for CD-ROM at /dev/hdc.. mount failed - not found > Looking for CD-ROM at /dev/hdd.. mount failed - not found > //find-cd: /proc/scsi/scsi: No such file or directory > --> repeats Looking for as above > //find-cd:.. > //find-cd:.. > //find-cd:.. > //find-cd: /proc/scsi/scsi: No such file or directory > Unable to find CD-ROM and NFSDIR not specified > bash# > --- > > It is all I can get. BTW the root file system is ext3 and not ext2 > (as displayed by boot message). > > -ishwar > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel
I did try the fedora''s initrd, the system does boot with some errors (mostly complaints about modeprobe and /lib/modules/2.4.25-xeno.gz) but keeps on doing page faults (prints the stack trace and back to shell prompt). I thought that hardware may be flaky, no faults in plain fedora (even under heavy activity). So, I will have to look for some other way (maybe time time to try debian?). -ishwar On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Rolf Neugebauer wrote:> Actually, can you try the default initrd, ie. the one that comes with fedora > and not the one from the xen demo cd? That is what I used and can imagine > that the xen boot cd initrd tries to mount the cd > > Rolf > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:xen-devel- > > admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of I RATTAN > > Sent: 24 March 2004 13:39 > > To: Neugebauer, Rolf > > Cc: xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] xen-1.2 again > > > > > > > > On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Neugebauer, Rolf wrote: > > > > > Hi Ishwar > > > > > > I have used Xen/Xenolinux with Fedora without any problems. I installed > > > Fedora and the copied xen.gz and xenolinux.gz (albeit build from > > > unstable source) into the /boot directory, adjusted the grub.conf in > > > /boot/grub and it just works. > > I just copied the xenolinux.gz from the xen-1.2 demodisk. I have do > > not have a serial console, so can list the last (visible part only): > > > > --- > > ... > > detects /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, /dev/hdc (CD-ROM) ok.. > > .. > > VFS Mounted Root (ext2 file system) > > Looking for CD-ROM at /dev/hda.. unable to identify CD-ROM format. > > mount failed - not found > > Looking for CD-ROM at /dev/hdb.. unable to identify CD-ROM format. > > Looking for CD-ROM at /dev/hdc.. mount failed - not found > > Looking for CD-ROM at /dev/hdd.. mount failed - not found > > //find-cd: /proc/scsi/scsi: No such file or directory > > --> repeats Looking for as above > > //find-cd:.. > > //find-cd:.. > > //find-cd:.. > > //find-cd: /proc/scsi/scsi: No such file or directory > > Unable to find CD-ROM and NFSDIR not specified > > bash# > > --- > > > > It is all I can get. BTW the root file system is ext3 and not ext2 > > (as displayed by boot message). > > > > -ishwar > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > > _______________________________________________ > > Xen-devel mailing list > > Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel >------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel