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 Re: [Xen-users] steps to install xen3.1 from source
 
To: "Huang,Wei" <first_huang@xxxxxxxxx>From: "Todd Deshane" <deshantm@xxxxxxxxx>Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:44:40 -0500Cc: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxDelivery-date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:45:16 -0800Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma;	h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references;	b=auKAHgFnR9a/RktsMc+wAZ66LBfNKdPYWGNXEoJRBJXI3UH2PpKPTyxnQ3MdW7D/9jevhr6ZgbDmm2LscgrHwtvhldnOjvb+rqWeV7ZuS+FDad27y+UXft+BuWGNVwrbli6ogeaL9HOFQFqEsswU7G32J/IRsoobtNbn32xQdLg=List-id: Xen user discussion <xen-users.lists.xensource.com> 
 
 
 On Jan 17, 2008 4:22 PM, Huang,Wei <first_huang@xxxxxxxxx > wrote: 
hi all,
 i want to install xen3.1 on my system, suse linux
 enterprise server 10 SP1 (kernel 2.6.16.46-0.12).
 i download the tarball binary file. it contains only
 "vmlinuz-2.6.18-xen" and "xen-3.1.gz
", no initrd. but
 see the following code in my grub menu.lst, it seems
 like i need the initrd file.
 
 i tried the installation with this binary Tarball, it
 didn't work.
 
 this is the original code in 
menu.lst of GRUB:
 --------------------------------------------------
 title SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1
 root (hd0,1)
 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16.46-0.12-default
 root=/dev/sda2 vga=0x32b    resume=/dev/sda1
 splash=silent showopts
 initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.16.46-0.12-default
 --------------------------------------------------
 
 i don't know what the problem is. So i want to install
 from source, and i want to build a xen linux kernel
 with the same kernel version of my suse
 (2.6.16.46-0.12). I looked up the xen manual, but it
 shows not enough details of the installation steps.
 
 Could you please tell me which steps shall i do in the
 installation?
 
 You should be able to create the initrd with a mkintrd or mkintramfs command.
 
 The basic idea is to pass those commands the proper kernel version. The kernel and the modules (that make up the initrd) need to make. So in your case I would expect that you should be able to find the proper modules in  /lib/modules/2.6.18-xen. You then also need to pass the output file name as the initrd file. (Note, typically the command takes on the 
2.6.18-xen part and not the /lib/modules part, as that is assumed.
 
 You should be able to find good examples of using the proper mkinitrd or mkinitramfs command online and I believe they also explain that in the README that comes with the binary package.
 
 Regards,
 Todd
 
 
 thanks a lot.
 
 best regards,
 Wei
 
 
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