Markus Kiefer
2009-Jan-21 08:56 UTC
[Xen-users] No bootloader with D-I in domU on part. RAID1
Hello. I just tried (as my first attempt in xenning) to set up a lenny amd64 domU on a partitionable Mirror RAID (/dev/md_d0p1 - /dev/md_d0p4), using the Debian installer from "people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/". The partitions of the md will be represented inside the domU as /dev/xvda1-4 accordingly. The dom0 seems to run fine, it''s Xen 3.2.1 on amd64 lenny. The d-i runs smoothly until it gets to the installation of the bootloader. There I get the red screen with "Installation step failed". There isn''t as much as a grub directory written on the /boot partition. Not very surprising, the guest OS won''t boot after finishing the installation anyway. I tried to install grub manually from outside the domU, but that also doesn''t seem to get me anywhere. Did I instinctively pick the one disk setup Xen (or grub) won''t work with? Best regards, Markus _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Thiago Camargo Martins Cordeiro
2009-Jan-21 21:35 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] No bootloader with D-I in domU on part. RAID1
Markus, I''m trying this today too! But I''m still in the partition step.... :-/ Try to use PyGRUB after installations finishes... If you don''t have the menu.lst file inside your domU, make one manually... ;-) - Thiago 2009/1/21 Markus Kiefer <markus@scheiss.at>> Hello. > > I just tried (as my first attempt in xenning) to set up a lenny amd64 domU > on a partitionable Mirror RAID (/dev/md_d0p1 - /dev/md_d0p4), using the > Debian installer from "people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/<http://people.debian.org/%7Ejoeyh/d-i/images/daily/>". > The partitions of the md will be represented inside the domU as /dev/xvda1-4 > accordingly. > > The dom0 seems to run fine, it''s Xen 3.2.1 on amd64 lenny. > > The d-i runs smoothly until it gets to the installation of the bootloader. > There I get the red screen with "Installation step failed". There isn''t as > much as a grub directory written on the /boot partition. > Not very surprising, the guest OS won''t boot after finishing the > installation anyway. I tried to install grub manually from outside the domU, > but that also doesn''t seem to get me anywhere. > > Did I instinctively pick the one disk setup Xen (or grub) won''t work with? > > Best regards, > Markus > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Markus Kiefer
2009-Jan-22 11:55 UTC
[Xen-users] Re: No bootloader with D-I in domU on part. RAID1
Hi. Thiago Camargo Martins Cordeiro schrieb:> Markus, > > I''m trying this today too! But I''m still in the partition step.... :-/Great. I''m looking forward to hearing about your progress.> Try to use PyGRUB after installations finishes... If you don''t have the > menu.lst file inside your domU, make one manually... ;-)Thanks for the advice. I didn''t try this (yet). With regular grub menu.lst wasn''t a problem. As far as I could tell, grub wasn''t able to install a working stage1. By now I just tried to use d-i on a domU residing on a simple sda partition. Now the installer can''t find a matching disk driver... I''m beginning to get a little frustrated. Regards, Markus> 2009/1/21 Markus Kiefer <markus@scheiss.at> > >> Hello. >> >> I just tried (as my first attempt in xenning) to set up a lenny amd64 domU >> on a partitionable Mirror RAID (/dev/md_d0p1 - /dev/md_d0p4), using the >> Debian installer from "people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/<http://people.debian.org/%7Ejoeyh/d-i/images/daily/>". >> The partitions of the md will be represented inside the domU as /dev/xvda1-4 >> accordingly. >> >> The dom0 seems to run fine, it''s Xen 3.2.1 on amd64 lenny. >> >> The d-i runs smoothly until it gets to the installation of the bootloader. >> There I get the red screen with "Installation step failed". There isn''t as >> much as a grub directory written on the /boot partition. >> Not very surprising, the guest OS won''t boot after finishing the >> installation anyway. I tried to install grub manually from outside the domU, >> but that also doesn''t seem to get me anywhere. >> >> Did I instinctively pick the one disk setup Xen (or grub) won''t work with? >> >> Best regards, >> Markus >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Xen-users mailing list >> Xen-users@lists.xensource.com >> http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users