[Xen-users] I've exhausted my brain trying to get xen to boot...please help

["Lionel Kernux" <lionel.kernux@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm running slackware12 and followed the directions in the README file
in the xen source tree.

I installed grub and made sure it is working properly.

I did:

make world
make install

and added the correct stanza to the grub.conf

then I rebooted and selected my xen kernel

BUT

xen boots to a certain point and then emits an error and reboots. The
error is difficult to see because the reboot happens almost
immediately after the error is displayed. From what I can see, the
error is "no /sbin/init found or not mounted".

I suspected that this might be due to a lack of scsi/sata drivers in
the xen kernel....so I followed the README instructions to build a
custom kernel:

5. To rebuild a kernel with a modified config:

    # make linux-2.6-xen-config CONFIGMODE=menuconfig     (or xconfig)
    # make linux-2.6-xen-build
    # make linux-2.6-xen-install

   Depending on your config, you may need to use 'mkinitrd' to create
   an initial ram disk, just like a native system e.g.
    # depmod 2.6.16-xen
    # mkinitrd -v -f --with=aacraid --with=sd_mod --with=scsi_mod
initrd-2.6.16-xen.img 2.6.16-xen

I made sure that ALL of the SATA/SCSI drivers are built-in so there
should be no need for initrd

But after running make linux-2.6-xen-install some stuff is installed
to /boot but NOT the xen-3.2.0.gz that grub needs to load.

ls -la /boot

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      37 2007-12-20 04:27 README.initrd ->
/usr/doc/mkinitrd-1.1.2/README.initrd
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      20 2007-12-21 11:36 System.map ->
System.map.2.6.23.12
-rw-rw-r--  1 root root 1043384 2008-01-11 15:53 System.map-2.6.18-xen
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  795880 2007-06-19 16:18 System.map-generic-2.6.21.5
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  813610 2007-06-19 15:53
System.map-generic-smp-2.6.21.5-smp
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1232918 2007-06-19 16:23 System.map-huge-2.6.21.5
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1252098 2007-06-19 15:58
System.map-huge-smp-2.6.21.5-smp
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1060243 2007-12-21 12:35 System.map.2.6.23.12
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     512 2007-12-20 04:51 boot.0800
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      16 2007-12-21 11:37 config -> config.2.6.23.12
-rw-rw-r--  1 root root   65742 2008-01-11 15:53 config-2.6.18-xen
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   72738 2007-06-19 16:18 config-generic-2.6.21.5
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   72764 2007-06-19 15:53 config-generic-smp-2.6.21.5-smp
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   72643 2007-06-19 16:23 config-huge-2.6.21.5
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   72669 2007-06-19 15:58 config-huge-smp-2.6.21.5-smp
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   56904 2007-12-21 12:34 config.2.6.23.12
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    5040 2007-06-10 02:09 diag1.img
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      15 2007-12-21 11:37 latest_smp -> linux-2.6.23.12
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 2743736 2007-12-21 12:34 linux-2.6.23.12
-rw-------  1 root root  118272 2008-01-10 15:22 map
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 2751320 2008-01-04 14:41 ndiskernel
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 7526897 2008-01-11 15:53 vmlinux-syms-2.6.18-xen
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      29 2007-12-20 04:43 vmlinuz ->
vmlinuz-huge-smp-2.6.21.5-smp
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      18 2008-01-11 15:53 vmlinuz-2.6-xen ->
vmlinuz-2.6.18-xen
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 3001674 2008-01-11 15:53 vmlinuz-2.6.18-xen
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1937944 2007-06-19 16:18 vmlinuz-generic-2.6.21.5
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 2087960 2007-06-19 15:53
vmlinuz-generic-smp-2.6.21.5-smp
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 4097784 2007-06-19 16:23 vmlinuz-huge-2.6.21.5
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 4417112 2007-06-19 15:58 vmlinuz-huge-smp-2.6.21.5-smp


So....please...

Any Help???/

Thanks

Miguel

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