Fedora Core 5 and Xen

[Stephen Tweedie]

Hi,

On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 14:57 -0700, Fong Vang wrote:

> I just installed the xen0 and xenU kernel on my Fedora Core 5 system. 
>  The Xen0 kernel can't boot.  It reboots too fast (doens't look like a
> kernel panic) to see the whole screen but it complains something about
> not being able to fine the volume groiup.  I am using LVM.  The
> original kernel (non-xen) still works fine.
> 
> Is there a way to prevent the system from rebooting?  

Yes, add the "noreboot" option to the xen0 kernel's "kernel /xen..."
line in /etc/grub.conf.

I also find it useful to use serial console output to debug boot
problems with xen: add

	com1=38400,8n1 sync_console

to the appropriate grub.conf "kernel /xen" line (assuming 38400bps
serial conosole) and 

	console=ttyS0 console=tty

to the "module /vmlinuz..." line.  Installing ttywatch from fedora-
extras is highly recommended as a way of capturing serial console from
another machine, btw.

There's also a fedora-xen at redhat.com mailing list, btw!

Cheers,
 Stephen