Mailing List Archive: Starting domain

Hello All,

Using FC3
Booted in Xen...with the initrd in grub.conf to tide over the udev issue of
Fedora Core 3
I have created a domain with follwing parameters in my domain config file:

kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.29-xenU"
memory = 64
name = "enjoy1"
nics=1
disk = [ 'file:/root/fedora.img,hda3,w' ]

As you can see I am using freshly a created fedora.img.

now it hangs at the same point (where others had pointed out it hangs when
there was no
initrd in the grub.conf when the system itself is booting up in Xen.)

for me it hangs after i try to start the domain with
$ xm create -c enjoy1
.......
.......
.
.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 60k freed
Warning: unable to open an initial console.

$ xm list shows the domain enjoy1 up with the "b" flag

I am not sure if it makes sense but I also tried putting
Initrd = "/root/initrd-fc3.img"
in the domain config ....unfortunately it makes no difference.

Would appreciate if someone give me some ideas or pointers.

thanks !
C. Jog

Since you're using a 2.4 kernel, udev won't work. If you use a 2.6 kernel
(your dom0 kernel would do fine) you may have more luck.

Alternatively, if you really want to use 2.4, use the MAKEDEV program to
create a full set of device nodes in your image file's /dev. Then you
shouldn't even need an initrd to boot it.

Cheers,
Mark

On Saturday 30 April 2005 00:54, Chetan Jog wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Using FC3
> Booted in Xen...with the initrd in grub.conf to tide over the udev issue of
> Fedora Core 3
> I have created a domain with follwing parameters in my domain config file:
>
> kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.29-xenU"
> memory = 64
> name = "enjoy1"
> nics=1
> disk = [ 'file:/root/fedora.img,hda3,w' ]
>
> As you can see I am using freshly a created fedora.img.
>
> now it hangs at the same point (where others had pointed out it hangs when
> there was no
> initrd in the grub.conf when the system itself is booting up in Xen.)
>
> for me it hangs after i try to start the domain with
> $ xm create -c enjoy1
> .......
> .......
> .
> .
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 60k freed
> Warning: unable to open an initial console.
>
> $ xm list shows the domain enjoy1 up with the "b" flag
>
> I am not sure if it makes sense but I also tried putting
> Initrd = "/root/initrd-fc3.img"
> in the domain config ....unfortunately it makes no difference.
>
> Would appreciate if someone give me some ideas or pointers.
>
> thanks !
> C. Jog

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