I am trying to run Xen on a diskless system. We have the infrastructure already set up to do PXE booting of other systems, so I am leaning towards using that. I have tried this: http://lists.xensource.com/archives/cgi-bin/mesg.cgi?a=xen-users&i=20050428132954.GD12740%40cray.cl.cam.ac.uk The PXE stuff runs, as soon as it loads the pxe config file, the screen goes blank and a few seconds later, the machine reboots. Any ideas on how to get Xen to PXE boot? Or should I simply look somewhere else? Any recommendations on where else to look? Thanks. Rusty Greer _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
I am trying to run Xen on a diskless system. We have the infrastructure already set up to do PXE booting of other systems, so I am leaning towards using that. I have tried this: http://lists.xensource.com/archives/cgi-bin/mesg.cgi?a=xen-users&i=20050428132954.GD12740%40cray.cl.cam.ac.uk The PXE stuff runs, as soon as it loads the pxe config file, the screen goes blank and a few seconds later, the machine reboots. Any ideas on how to get Xen to PXE boot? Or should I simply look somewhere else? Any recommendations on where else to look? Thanks. Rusty Greer _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Torsdag 11 august 2005 03:04, Rusty Greer wrote:> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/cgi-bin/mesg.cgi?a=xen-users&i=20050428 >132954.GD12740%40cray.cl.cam.ac.ukInteresting. A multiboot bootloader chained in after pxelinux.> The PXE stuff runs, as soon as it loads the pxe config file, the screen > goes blank and a few seconds later, the machine reboots. > > Any ideas on how to get Xen to PXE boot? Or should I simply look > somewhere else? Any recommendations on where else to look?I have success with pxegrub. I use version 0.95 of grub and have added a patch to support more NICs. Look for: grub-0.95-diskless-patch-2.patch.gz found on: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=9408 Regards, -- Andreas Bach Aaen System Developer, M. Sc. Ericsson Danmark A/S tel: +45 89 38 51 00 Skanderborgvej 232 fax: +45 89 38 51 01 8260 Viby J Denmark andreas.bach.aaen@ericsson.com _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Rusty Greer <rusty.greer@scalent.com> writes:> I am trying to run Xen on a diskless system. We have the infrastructure > already set up to do PXE booting of other systems, so I am leaning > towards using that.Easy. Pick latest syslinux bits, I''m running 3.08. The multiboot loader has been merged there. Check pxelinux.doc & mboot.doc. Gerd -- panic("it works"); /* avoid being flooded with debug messages */ _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Gerd Knorr <kraxel <at> suse.de> writes:> > Rusty Greer <rusty.greer <at> scalent.com> writes: > > > I am trying to run Xen on a diskless system. We have the infrastructure > > already set up to do PXE booting of other systems, so I am leaning > > towards using that. > > Easy. Pick latest syslinux bits, I''m running 3.08. The multiboot > loader has been merged there. Check pxelinux.doc & mboot.doc. > > Gerd >Hi. Does this PXE booting work together with YAST autoinstall feature? We currently install some machines via "autoyast" and like to use the environment for booting and installing XEN domUs too. thanks daniel _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Daniel Netzer <daniel.netzer@zeroconcept.de> writes:> Hi. Does this PXE booting work together with YAST autoinstall feature? We > currently install some machines via "autoyast" and like to use the environment > for booting and installing XEN domUs too.Hmm, domU or dom0? You can''t pxe-boot domU ... Well, you can hack up some script (running on dom0) which fetches images from the boot server using some tftp client, then boots them. Not sure whenever installing domU''s with yast actually works, but you can try the following: build a xen kernel with everything you need statically compiled in (some filesystems: cramfs, ext2, nfs when using that as install source, whatever fs you want to use for install, maybe lvm/raid, CONFIG_PACKET for the dhcp client, maybe more I don''t remember). Use the initrd from the first CD / DVD: boot/loader/initrd, check boot/loader/isolinux.cfg for kernel parameters. Gerd -- panic("it works"); /* avoid being flooded with debug messages */ _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users