Re: Xen not booting on debian

["Andrew Brampton" <a.brampton@lancs.ac.uk>]

Jan Kundrát wrote:
> Do you have the "root=(hd0,0)" or something similar in your grub/menu.lst?

Thanks for the email
I didn't have a root entry, but adding it fails in the exact same way :(

I must note that I have my normal debian entry in my menu.lst and it looks 
almost identical to the Xen entry. The debian entry boots fine (and has 
always), but the Xen doesn't :(

Derrik Pates wrote:
> > #  initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-1-386
> As pointed out in the directions, you need to load an initrd after the 
> XenLinux kernel with a 'module' directive, instead of an 'initrd' 
> directive.

my bad, I didn't notice the slight change in directives, I tried it with 
module but still no joy :(

I've been doing some googling for Grub errors but found nothing useful.

Now that we may have determined its not Grub I guess it could be my machine 
(which I suspected in the first place). You will hate me, but I'm trying to 
run Xen inside a Microsoft Virtual PC 2004. This is on a Pentium 4 3.0Ghz. 
The Virtual PC has 128mb RAM, emulated Intel 440BX Chipset and a emulated 
AMI BIOS.

I know its a little strange running a VM inside a VM, but I only wanted to 
play with xen a little but I didn't have a spare linux box to play with. If 
people know of Virtual PC problems has anyone tried running this in VMWare?

Thanks
Andrew 



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