I downloaded it and booted it. However it fails in attempting to mount the root file system. Looks like the /sbin/cow_root.sh script is looking for "root.fs" on the CD but the file is really called rootfs.img! -Jeff -- ============================================================================Jeffrey I. Schiller MIT Network Manager Information Services and Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Room W92-190 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 617.253.0161 - Voice jis@mit.edu =========================================================================== _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
As far as I can tell the demo CD does look for the correct filename; the file it boots from is the one specified in the ''image='' clause of the kernel commandline. The default, ''rootfs.img'' is specified at the top of the cow_root.sh script and assigned to the IMAGE env-var. However, it could be that your IDE controller isn''t correctly discovered by the hardware detection routine, and thus the CD is not mounted, causing the image file not to be available. You might try adding the option ''debug-initrd'' to the kernel command-line to be dropped into a shell prompt before the CD is mounted. From here, if you know the name of the module you need for your IDE/SCSI controllers, modprobe it, and then exit the shell. The boot process should continue as normal. I presume the .iso file you have has an md5sum of dd4b3dbddb9a0db4aa7ce7d0cfda0e6f? Please feel free to get in touch again if you still have problems. Equally, if you find this solution works, then if possible please let me know what hardware you are using so that a fix can be incorporated into future releases of the Demo CD. Thanks, Andrew. Jeffrey I. Schiller wrote:> I downloaded it and booted it. However it fails in attempting to mount > the root file system. Looks like the /sbin/cow_root.sh script is looking > for "root.fs" on the CD but the file is really called rootfs.img! > > -Jeff_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
OK. I''ll poke at it some more. The CD is being mounted, when the script fails and drops me into a shell I can look at /tmp/cdrom (pathname from memory) and see the contents, so that isn''t the problem. I do have the correct md5 sum, so we are talking about the same disk. <sacrilege> I''m booting it under VMWare Workstation version 5. The 2.0.6 iso worked fine in this configuration. The host is a Dell X300 laptop with a 1200Mhz processor and 1Gb of memory. </sacrilege> I''m running 2.0.7 "for real" on a 2 CPU Dell 2850 without any problems. -Jeff -- ============================================================================Jeffrey I. Schiller MIT Network Manager Information Services and Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Room W92-190 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 617.253.0161 - Voice jis@mit.edu =========================================================================== _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
OK. I figured it out. I''m a bit embarrassed! Turns out I was recycling the VMWare VM which I had used with the 2.0.6 iso. While hacking around I had copied parts of 2.0.6 to the virtual hard disk and made it bootable. So I was booting the virtual hard drive and it was running the initrd from 2.0.6 against the 3.0 CD. Thanks for your help. -Jeff -- ============================================================================Jeffrey I. Schiller MIT Network Manager Information Services and Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Room W92-190 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 617.253.0161 - Voice jis@mit.edu =========================================================================== _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users