Re: [Xen-users] Unable to boot installation ISO

["John F. Acree" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The gentoo minimal cd worked fine for me with xcp1.1, which I think is 
running the xen-3 series.  It was only on xcp1.5 that I ran into 
problems getting it to be bootable, which I think runs the xen-4 series.
I have no idea what the difference is between the two.  But as soon as I 
get the chance I will take a screenshot of the boot process when it 
fails, and include the vm-param-list output for that vm.
Maybe something has changed in the way the cdrom is handled or reported?

John

> Ok, to make a follow up on my original email, I tried linux rescue CD
> (systemrecue cd) and it booted. I saw that it dosent (or dosent appear
> to) support native Xen frontend driver so sees the cdrom in HVM.
> the gentoo seems to support native xen drivers (when booting, I can see
> the disk with xvda : xvda1, xvda2, etc)
> maybe the ISO dosent support a native xen cdrom driver (if there is one) ?
> J-F
>
>     -------- Original Message --------
>     Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Unable to boot installation ISO
>     From: "John F. Acree" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:john@xxxxxxxxxxxx>>
>     Date: Wed, April 04, 2012 11:40 am
>     To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>     Hi,
>
>     I have had a similar problem, and as yet have not had a chance to take
>     the screenshot as was requested earlier(maybe this weekend I can get
>     to it.)
>
>     My solution, until it can be figured out what needs to be changed so
>     the
>     gentoo minimal cd will boot, is that I used an ubuntu cd.
>
>     I am writing up instructions on this approach, but might be several
>     days
>     or weeks before I release it(my first attempt at technical
>     documentation.)
>
>     Basic steps:
>     Select other install media.
>     Load the ubuntu iso or cd.
>     Format the target drive.
>     Copy down the gentoo stage3 and portage archives to the target drive.
>     Extract packages, per install instructions.
>     Chroot as normal and continue with the install instructions.
>
>     Hope this helps. But I am not using a gentoo dom0, using xcp 1.5, so
>     there are differences.
>
>     John
>
>     >  Hi,
>     >  I build Xen 4.1.1 on a Gentoo base dom0. Everything is working
>     great. I
>     >  tried one of Joseph Glanville's PV-HVM image (debian6) and its working
>     >  as it should.
>     >  Now l'im trying to build a Gentoo based domU with then same specs as
>     >  Joseph's PV-HVM.
>     >  I used a copy of the .cfg and adapted to my needs to make the
>     gentoo work.
>     >  when booting the minimal install image using the iso, it starts
>     loading
>     >  the CD and then when trying to mount the cd-rom it dosent see it .
>     >  here is a copy of the .cfg i used:
>     >  kernel = 'hvmloader'
>     >  builder = 'hvm'
>     >  memory = 4096
>     >  vcpus = 4
>     >  name = "vm-vps3"
>     >  vif = [ 'bridge=virbr0' ]
>     >  disk = ['phy:/dev/vgPool1/VM-VPS3,hda,w',
>     >
>     
> 'file:/mnt/iso-images/gentoo/amd64/install-amd64-minimal-20120223.iso,hdc:cdrom']
>     >  acpi = 1
>     >  boot = 'd'
>     >  sdl = 0
>     >  serial = 'pty'
>     >  xen_platform_pci = 1
>     >  vnc = 1
>     >  vncpasswd = 'password'
>     >  vnclisten = 'localhost'
>     >  vncdisplay = '343'
>     >  I tried with xen_platform_pci set to 0 but the just hangs to boot
>     >  procedure when loading the sata_piix module.
>     >  any ideas on this ?
>     >  Thanks,
>     >  J-F
>     >
>     >
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