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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Unable to boot installation ISO
From: "John F. Acree" <
john@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, April 04, 2012 11:57 am
To:
xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxThe 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 <
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>
> 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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