Hi Frederick, it depends a bit on wether you run a PVM or a HVM, but in latter case I got very good results with booting from the mini.iso: http://<repo>/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/mini.iso
my domain.cfg: kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader" builder='hvm' device_model = '/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm' memory = 512 name = "vm1" vcpus=1 pae=0 acpi=0 apic=0 cpus = "" vif = [ 'type=ioemu, mac=aa:00:bb:cc:00:d4, bridge=192.168.1.2' ] disk = [ 'file:/var/lib/xen/vm1-hda.img,ioemu:hda,w', 'file:/var/lib/xen/debian-4.0r1-installer-gtk-netboot-mini.iso,hdc:cdrom,r' ] on_poweroff = 'destroy' on_reboot = 'destroy' on_crash = 'destroy' boot='d' sdl=0 vnc=1 vncviewer=0 stdvga=0 serial='pty' ne2000=0 usb=1 usbdevice='tablet' Sincerely, Jan. On Jan 13, 2008 9:57 AM, Frederick N. Brier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to create a DomU Debian guest VM. I tried a Debian-Etch > DomU from jailtime.org. Lots of my own issues, discovering other people > having the same exact problems, but no solutions. So I installed > debootstrap and xen-tools and tried that. Again like many other people > I ran into the "VFS: Cannot open root device "hda1" or > unknown-block(0,0)" issue. I have not figured out why the cfg file is > not being generated in /etc/xen, but I have gotten it to generate images > using the file image and LVM (creating the Logical Volumes). I just > hand coded the cfg file. After they were generated, I mounted both > images and noticed that neither had hda1 or hda2 device files in /dev. > That would seem to be a problem. Please help! A link to tutorial or > answer would be fabulous. The only thing I have not tried yet is using > pygrub and bundling the kernel and .img files with the guest and not > using the fc8xen kernel and images in the Dom0's boot folder. Thank you > for any help. > > Fred > > -- > Fedora-xen mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen >
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