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            Titel: Not much Zen in Xen (yet) 
             Verfasst am: 15.08.2006, 04:53 Uhr
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          Xen has been in Sid for sometime now. but there has been very little reaction so far in this forum. I'd love to now if somebody has succided in  installing it  and making it work. 
 
I foud this fairly comprehensive article by Steve Kemp #http://debian-administration.org/articles/396# and decided to follow it. Everything went smoothly untill I had to make Xen kernel packages bootable 
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root@box2:/home/richard# mkinitrd  -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.16-2-xen-686 2.6.16-2-xen-686
 
/usr/sbin/mkinitrd: line 1454: mkext2fs: command not found
 
 
This is my /boot/grub/menu.list 
 
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title      Xen 3.0-i386 / Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.16-2-xen-686
 
root      (hd0,0)
 
kernel      /boot/xen-3.0-i386.gz   noreboot
 
module      /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-2-xen-686 root=/dev/sda1 ro 
 
module          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.16-2-xen-686
 
ramdisk_size=100000 lang=us apm=power-off nomce vga=791 console=tty0
 
boot 
 
 
Grub lists the Xen kernel just fine at the srart-up but will not boot it.
 
I get the error message 
Code: 
 Error 15: File not found.
 
 
I run fully upgraded Easter Edition with 2.6.17.8-slh-up-1 kernel.
 
My  HD Western Digital -80Gb SATA. My processor - Athlon 3700.
 
Any suggestions and understanding will be greatly appreciated   
 
Thanks
 
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            Titel: RE: Not much Zen in Xen (yet) 
             Verfasst am: 16.08.2006, 05:42 Uhr
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apt-get remove initrd-tools ; dpkg -P initrd-tools ; apt-get install initrd-tools
 
 
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            Titel: Not much Zen in Xen (yet) 
             Verfasst am: 18.08.2006, 17:08 Uhr
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          Hi mzilikazi,
 
 Thanks for all your help. Just had a chance to test your suggestions. A definete progress. Managed to get the booting started this time, but there seems to be  some glitches left to work out.
 
This is the message from Grub.
 
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initrd-tools : 0.1.84.1
 
mount : unknown file system type  'devfs'
 
SCSI subsystem initialized
 
umount : devfs: not mounted
 
pivot_root :No such file or directory
 
/sbin/init : 432 : cannot open dev/console : No such file
 
Kernel panic - not syncing : Attempted to kill ninit !
 
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The "unknown file system type " throws me out completely.
 
Hopefully some people smarter the me will be able to figure it out.
 
 
Thanks
 
 
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            Titel: RE: Not much Zen in Xen (yet) 
             Verfasst am: 26.08.2006, 00:50 Uhr
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          New package entered unstable today named xen-linux-system-2.6.17-2-xen
 
 
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            Titel: RE: Not much Zen in Xen (yet) 
             Verfasst am: 26.08.2006, 02:42 Uhr
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          | Actually, I get to something like "trace disabled" and then my machine reboots | 
         
        
          
          
            
          
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            Titel: Re: RE: Not much Zen in Xen (yet) 
             Verfasst am: 15.10.2006, 17:52 Uhr
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 jackiebrown hat folgendes geschrieben:: 
Actually, I get to something like "trace disabled" and then my machine reboots
 
 
 
I´ve got the same problem working on Debian Sarge in a VM-Ware
 
I`ve installed the XEN-Packages from Debian-Backports.
 
 
Did you find an answer for the rebooting problem?
 
 
best regards
 
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            Titel: RE: Re: RE: Not much Zen in Xen (yet) 
             Verfasst am: 15.10.2006, 20:00 Uhr
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          I never found an answer.
 
 
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            Titel: RE: Re: RE: Not much Zen in Xen (yet) 
             Verfasst am: 25.10.2006, 00:36 Uhr
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          this might help
 
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