On 2006-05-08, Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 06:54:44AM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I am quite new to Xen, so before I go ahead and file bugs I want to make >> sure that I am not doing something stupid. Are the xen images supposed to >> bootable? > > They are bootable, but not via a realmode bootloader like grub or lilo, > but via xen. In fact the images are ELF binaries.
Thanks for the cluebat. Obviously, I need to boot Xen first. I even had xen-hypervisor-3.0-amd64 already installed! >> There is no postinst in the images and so initrd doesn't get >> created. > > This is known and beeing worked on. Okay. Here is what I did to get Xen working with the Debian 2.6.16 kernel images on my Athlon X2. 1. Install xen-hypervisor-3.0-amd64, xen-utils-3.0, linux-image-2.6.16-1-xen-amd64-k8 and linux-modules-2.6.16-1-xen-amd64-k8 2. sudo update-initramfs -v -c -k 2.6.16-1-amd64-k8-smp 3. Manually edit /boot/grub/menu.lst to add an entry like ======= title Xen + Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.16-1-xen-amd64-k8 root (hd0,1) kernel /xen-3.0-amd64.gz module /vmlinuz-2.6.16-1-xen-amd64-k8 root=/dev/<root> ro console=tty0 module /initrd.img-2.6.16-1-xen-amd64-k8 savedefault boot ======= Hope somebody finds this information useful till initrd generation in the Xen images as well as update-grub gets fixed. Ganesan -- Ganesan Rajagopal (rganesan at debian.org) | GPG Key: 1024D/5D8C12EA Web: http://employees.org/~rganesan | http://rganesan.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
