Re: [Xen-users] 2.6.20-1-amd64 Xen with RHEL5 guest

[Alex Samad <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 11:30:15AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 01:57:15PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 10:40:32PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 12:20:22PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > > > On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 04:51:43PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> > > > > okay made the changes to xvba & xvbb, went forward with the rhel5 
> > > > > install, it 
> > > > > wants to partition up the drives. which I let it do in its default 
> > > > > way - which 
> > > > > means I have a /boot, pv1, pv2.
> > > > > From the host machine how can I get to /boot for the vmlinux and the 
> > > > > initrd?
> > > > > I am presuming I need these to insert into my xen config file !
> > > > 
> > > > No need. Just use pygrub bootloader. eg instead of kernel + initrd 
> > > > config
> > > > options, use
> > > > 
> > > >   bootloader='/usr/bin/pygrub'
> > > 
> > > This is a debian host, what package is this part of and will it look in 
> > > the 
> > > guest disks for this information ?
> > 
> > pygrub is a standard part of Xen 3.0.3 releases or later, so I'd hope its in
> > one of the Debian xen packages. As I mentioned below, it looks into the 
> > guest
> > disk to extract the default & initrd.
> great I wil track it down
Okay I have a working rhel5 guest in a debian host.  found pygrub, but it seems 
to be broken, will look into it.

Thanks for your help



> 
> 
> > 
> > > > It will automatically look in /boot for the guest disk & extract the 
> > > > default
> > > > kernel & initrd. If you use 'xm create -c' it'll present you the usual 
> > > > grub
> > > > style menu for choosing a non-default kernel.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Dan.
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