Re: Xen not booting !

["Marc - A. Dahlhaus" <mad@wol.de>]

Hello,

Leena M. schrieb:
> Hi All,
>        I am not able to boot Xen .
>
> My "/boot/grub/menu.lst"  has this entry
>
> title           Xen 3.3.2-rc5 / Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18.8-xen
> root            (hd0,0)
> kernel          /boot/xen-3.3.2-rc5.gz
> module          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-xen root=/dev/sda1 ro console=tty0
> module          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18.8-xen
> savedefault
>
>
> I am getting following error :
> ERROR WHILE BOOTING =>
> ------------------------------
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> Booting 'Xen 3.3.2-rc5 / Debian GNU/Linux, Kernel 2.6.18.8-xen'
>
> root (hda0,0)
looks like a typo here you entered this by hand didn't you?!
> Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> kernel /boot/xen-3.3.2-rc5.gz
>    [Multiboot-elf,<0x100000:0xfd6b0:0x77950>,shtab=0x275078,entry=0
grub found the file
> module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-xen root=/dev/sda1 ro console=tty0
>    [Multiboot-module @ 0x276000,0x5419c0 bytes]
grub found the file
> module /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18.8-xen
>
> Error 15: File not found
grub found no such file /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18.8-xen on (hd0,0)...
typo in filename?

on grubs prompt a "ls (hd0,0)/boot" should show what grub can load and 
what not...
>
> press any key to continue ...
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Please Help me.
>
> ----
>  I followed the following procedure from the
> "Introduction to the Open Source Xen Hypervisor"
> Zach Shepherd and Wenjin
> taken from xen blog.
>
> Install required packages
> (e.g. apt-get install gawk libssl-dev libx11-dev gettext libncurses-dev
> build-essential python-dev texlive-latex-base transfig tetex-extra
> bcc bin86 pciutils-dev git-core curl texinfo libc6-dev mercurial
> bridge-utils graphviz)
> Download the latest Xen release
> (e.g. hg clone http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-3.3-testing.hg)
> Compile and Install
> (e.g. make world; make install)
> Create a ramdisk
> (e.g depmod 2.6.18.8-xen;mkinitramfs -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18.8-xen
> 2.6.18.8-xen )
> Configure the bootloader
> (e.g update-grub)
>
>
>
> Following are the entries in relevant files =>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> # cat /etc/fstab
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
> /dev/sda1       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 
> 0       1
> /dev/sda5       none            swap    sw              0       0
> /dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> # cat /boot/grub/device.map
> (hd0)   /dev/sda
> (hd1)   /dev/sdb
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Regards,
> Leena
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