From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Subject: Re: Xen 4.0 on RHEL6 beta Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 10:46:02 -0400 Message-ID: <20100510144602.GD29517@phenom.dumpdata.com> References: <20100507174301.GS17817@reaktio.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100507174301.GS17817@reaktio.net> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Pasi =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4rkk=E4inen?= Cc: Dan Magenheimer , "Xen-Devel (xen-devel@lists.xensource.com)" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org > > o Figure out all the options for mkinitrd > > > > Does RHEL6 still use mkinitrd? I thought they switched to dracut. They did and doing it via 'mkinitrd' makes it .. well, non-bootable. Dan, try 'new-kernel-pkg --dracut --verbose 2.6.31.13' which does the modification in /boot/grub/menu.lst and also creates the initramfs disk. > > > o Boot it! > > > > Other stuff: > > o Consider using a newer pvops git tree as RHEL6 is 2.6.32 (with > > a LOT of patches). > > > > Yeah, it's better to use 2.6.32 based dom0 tree. > > > o Consider figuring out a simpler partitioning than the default > > install in case all the devmapper stuff causes problems. It _ought_ to work. Haven't seen any errors in that department. > > o Ensure iptables is turned off (no option at install as RHEL5 has) Why? I know that sometimes it is pain to setup the right ports (you have to enable port 22, 5901, etc) but once you get over that hump it gives you a nice fuzzy feeling.