Girish Mani wrote:> Hi,
>
> I have installed XEN in my Fedora Linux machine and have the following
> entries in the /boot/grub/grub.conf file:
> <<<<<<<
> title Fedora Core (2.6.17.3 <http://2.6.17.3>)
> root (hd0,4)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.17.3 <http://2.6.17.3> ro
> root=/dev/vol/root rhgb quiet
> initrd /initrd-2.6.17.3.img
> title Xen 3.0 / XenLinux 2.6
> root (hd0,4)
> kernel /xen-3.0.gz dom0_mem=262144
> module /vmlinuz-2.6-xen root=/dev/sda5 ro console=tty0
> >>>>>>>>
>
You need to create an initrd and add a line to the Xen grub entry:
module /initrd-xen.img
To make an initrd, do something like this:
mkinitrd -v -f initrd-xen.img 2.6.16.13-xen
Also, make sure the device drivers you need (e.g. SCSI) are
included/> I have the following concerns:
> 1. Can someone the value that should go in the "root" field of
the
> "module" parameter? What value should this contain. Is it the
"root
> path" from where the current OS is loading (or) "boot path"
from where
> the current OS is loading?
> 2. When I reboot the machine and try loading XEN, the "VFS
failure"
> error occurs. I understand this is because of the wrong value in the
> "root" field.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
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Regards,
David F Barrera
Linux Technology Center
Systems and Technology Group, IBM
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