Re: [Xen-users] Xen Install

[James Bulpin <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ramarathnam Sriram wrote:
> Hi,
>   I am trying to install xen on top of Fedora
> I appended the following lines in menu.lst file
>
>   title Xen 2.0 / XenLinux 2.6
>   kernel /boot/xen-2.0.gz dom0_mem=131072
>   module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6-xen0 root=/dev/sda4 ro console=tty0
This is direct copy from the user manual without modification for your 
own system I suspect.
> it gives the following errror
>
> Root-NFS: no NFS server available,giving up
> VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS,trying floppy
> VFS: Insert root floppy and press enter
>
>
> And when I press enter I see
> kernel panic (not syncing...)
> (I did not catch the rest)
> and it reboots.
>
> also i tried changing root=/dev/hdc since that is what my root is 
> inside /etc/fstab.
No it isn't, according to your followup email:

  /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /   ext3    defaults        1 1

You'll need an initrd for the kernel to be able to mount this.

Boot into native Linux and run as root (I'm assuming XenLinux 2.6.11 - 
substitute your actual version):
  mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.11-xen0.img 2.6.11-xen0

  (you may have to do "depmod -a 2.6.11-xen0" first)

Append the following line to the Xen entry in your GRUB menu.lst

  module /boot/initrd-2.6.11-xen0.img

Change the root= option to root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00

James

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