[Fedora-xen] FC6 w updates: xenguest-install.py hangs on Dell poweredge

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>Subject: Fedora-xen Digest, Vol 12, Issue 52
>Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:00:10 -0500 (EST)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:50:52 +0100 (CET)
>From: Paul Wouters <paul at xelerance.com>
>Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] FC6 w updates: xenguest-install.py hangs on
>	Dell	poweredge
>To: ". ." <porjo38 at hotmail.com>
>Cc: fedora-xen at redhat.com
>Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611271648590.27487 at tla.xelerance.com>
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>On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, . . wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, Paul Wouters wrote:
> >
> > > >xenguest-install -n ftp.xtdnet.nl -f
> > > >/children/ftp.xtdnet.nl/ftp.xtdnet.nl.img --nographics -p -l
> > > > >ftp://dl.xs4all.nl/pub/mirror/fedora/core/6/i386/os/ -x "noacpi 
>noapic"
> > > >-r 1024
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >(the noapic noacpi was a test in the hope tht it would fix my issue).
> > > >
> > > >Also, I can still do xm shutdown and then I see the system halting.
> >
> > >Using kpartx and losetup, I checked the filesystems. They hasn't been
> > >any writing apart from formatting done to the disk. So no logfiles of
> > >the anaconda installer to see what went wrong either :
> >
> > >Paul
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm having exactly the same issue trying to load a new Xen guest system. 
>My
> > setup is:
> >
> > AMD64, 1Gig RAM, SATA Hard disk
> > Fedora Core 6 x86_64 - Dom0
> >
> > I'm using FC6 for the guest system also, installing to a partition of 
>the hard
> > disk - /dev/sda15
> > The installation source is an NFS mount of the FC6 DVD media (in the 
>local DVD
> > drive).
> >
> > It gets to the "Starting install process.  This may take several 
>minutes..."
> > and just sits there. Every couple of minutes, the DVD drives spins up 
>and
> > reads but nothing else happens - like it's stuck in a loop of some kind. 
>The
> > log files in /var/log/xen don't give any clues.
>
>I did not get past this yet. I ended up doing a manual yum install with 
>yum:
>
>yum -c yum-xen.conf --installroot=/mnt -y groupinstall Base
>
>Though perhaps next time I'll use a qemu install using the ISO DVD.
>
>Paul
>
>
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Hi Paul,

That's a good idea. I'm only somewhat familiar with this method - I 
understand that you are mounting the Guest filesystem to /mnt then using yum 
to install packages onto it. Do you have a good 'howto' you can recommend 
that describes this procedure. Also, could you cat your yum-xen.conf file 
for me? I'm not sure what you mean by a 'qemu install' - can you elaborate 
on that?

Thanks,
Ian.

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