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> From: Adam Gold <adamgold@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Monday, November 7, 2011 4:54 PM
> Subject: [Xen-users] ubuntu 11.10, system V runlevel compatability
>
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> I'm having a problem with the boot sequence hanging indefinitely at "stopping system V runlevel compatibility". Here are the steps I took to get to this point:
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> 1) installed a single boot, server version of ubuntu 11.10 (intended to be dom0)
> 2) apt-get install xen-hypervisor-4.1-amd64 xen-utils-4.1 xenwatch xen-tools xen-utils-common xenstore-utils
> 3) updated grub as follows:
> - changed the default boot order
> - added the following entries
> GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true
> GRUB_SERIAL_COMMAND="serial --unit=0 --speed=9600 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1"
> GRUB_TERMINAL="console serial"
> GRUB_CMDLINE_XEN="com1=9600,8n1 console=com1,vga"
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="console=tty0 console=hvc0"for the new menu entries and xend-config.sxp
> 4) made the following changes to /etc/default/xendomains:
> XENDOMAINS_SAVE=""
> XENDOMAINS_RESTORE=false
> 5) rebooted
>
> --------------------
> Problem is solved by installing:
> lightdm-gtk-greeter
>
>
> Remember to load xen backend and misc modules in /etc/modules
>
> ---------- /etc/modules --------
> xen-blkback
> xen-netback
> xen-evtchn
> xen-gntdev
> -------------------- snip ----------
>
> --
>
> Mark
>
Hi. Thanks for the response.
I installed lightdm-gtk-greeter (having been through all of the previous
steps I mentioned above) and rebooted. I was presented with a
graphical login screen but it wouldn't accept my credentials (neither
root nor user). Also, I lost ssh access! Let me ask:
1) is an X front end login screen a necessity to make xen work on ubuntu 11.10 (I'd rather not have an X server running)
2) the other steps you mentioned - are these required also to address my
problem? If so, please could you specify what I have to do load the
backend and other mentioned modules (err yes, sorry, I one of the newbies). Is it 'modprobe...' for each of
the named modules? Does this need doing manually each time I reboot?
As you'll gather, I haven't tried these yet...
Thanks for looking at this.
