Re: [Xen-users] Success story

[Art Fore <art.fore@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 15:48 +0100, shal@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Selon Art Fore <art.fore@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> > Hi Shal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> >
> > Tried what you had oher than there was no
> > mysterious /boot/initrd-2.6.18.img, which was the same as from the
> > tutorial by compiling the 3.0.3 kernel. Hhere is what I did.
> >
> > Installed the Xen kernel etc from Suse 10.2 DVD.
> >
> > The ran the mkinitrd -k "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.2-4-xen"  -i
> > "/boot/initrd-2.6.18.2-4-xen"  (it didn't do anything without the quote
> > marks) I then got
> >
> > Root device:    /dev/sda2 (mounted on / as ext3)
> > Module list:    ata_piix jbd ext3 edd fan (xennet xenblk)
> >
> > Kernel image:   /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.2-4-xen
> > Initrd image:   /boot/initrd-2.6.18.2
> 
> => this line is strange... no ?

I hadn't noticed that, but yes it is strange. However, machine does boot
into the xen kernel now.
> 
> snip
> 
> On my computer (but run on the xen kernel...):
> 
> # mkinitrd  -k /boot/vmlinuz-xen  -i /boot/initrd-2.6.18.2-4-xen
> Root device:    /dev/sda2 (mounted on / as ext3)
> Module list:    processor thermal generic ahci pata_marvell fan jbd ext3 edd
> (xennet xenblk)
> 
> Kernel image:   /boot/vmlinuz-xen
> Initrd image:   /boot/initrd-2.6.18.2-4-xen
> Shared libs:    lib64/ld-2.5.so lib64/libacl.so.1.1.0 lib64/libattr.so.1.1.0
> lib64/libblkid.so.1.0 lib64/libc-2.5.so lib64/libcom_err.so.2.1
> lib64/libdl-2.5.so lib64/libext2fs.so.2.4 lib64/libhistory.so.5.1
> lib64/libncurses.so.5.5 lib64/libpthread-2.5.so lib64/libreadline.so.5.1
> lib64/librt-2.5.so lib64/libutil-2.5.so lib64/libuuid.so.1.2
> lib64/libvolume_id.so.0.73.0 lib64/libnss_files-2.5.so lib64/libnss_files.so.2
> lib64/libgcc_s.so.1
> Cannot determine dependencies of module edd. Is modules.dep up to date?
> Cannot determine dependencies of module edd. Is modules.dep up to date?
> Cannot determine dependencies of module edd. Is modules.dep up to date?
> Driver modules: ide-core ide-disk scsi_mod sd_mod processor thermal generic
> libata ahci pata_marvell fan
> Xen domU modules:       xennet xenblk
> Filesystem modules:     jbd mbcache ext3
> Including:      initramfs fsck.ext3
> No bootsplash for kernel flavor xen
> 16735 blocks
> 
Looks like you got pretty much what I got. I had to do a 
depmod -v 2.6.18.2-4-zen though to get what I did get.

> A part of my menu.lst :
> 
> title openSUSE 10.2
>     root (hd0,1)
>     kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 vga=0x31a all-generic-ide
> resume=/dev/sda6 splash=silent showopts elevator=
>     initrd /boot/initrd
> 
> title xen
>     kernel (hd0,1)/boot/xen.gz
>     module /boot/vmlinuz-xen   root=/dev/sda2 vga=0x31a all-generic-ide
> resume=/dev/sda6 splash=silent
>     module (hd0,1)/boot/initrd-xen
> 
(snip)
Thanks for the info and your help. Now if I can just get the disk image
created that works. (This has not been my month at all. Nothing works
according to web documentation.)

Art


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