[Fedora-xen] f7 guest on f8t3

[John Summerfield]

John Summerfield wrote:
> 
> This is my command line, it's similar to one that worked for Debian etch 
> and ClarkConnect 4.2 (and Windows XP):
> 
> virt-install --name=Fedora7 --ram=384 --vcpus=2 
> --file=/var/lib/xen/images/Fedora7.img --file-size=4 --vnc --hvm 
> --cdrom=/net/ns/var/local/mirrors/linux/Fedora/7/Fedora/x86_64/iso/F-7-x86_64-DVD.iso 
>  --os-type=linux os-variant=fedora7
> 
> Windows is fine
> Debian's fine
> ClarkConnect's fine
> 
> f7 took ages loading ata_piix4 (actually it was a little further than 
> this, that's just want was on the install screen). Ages > half an hour 
> after which I went off to lunch.

The screen shot's like this, but a different module. This has been 
running for ages before the other screen shots.

http://58.6.192.22/f1.png

> A lot of possibly-relevant messages scrolled of the screen (fortunately 
> I said "vga=791" so I have a reasonable number), but I can see kernel 
> messages back to its recognising sda. There's nothing to suggest it 
> found the virtual DVD-ROM drive.



I may have misinterpreted something, there's something about ata2 in the 
messages.
Screen shots at
http://58.6.192.22/f2.png
http://58.6.192.22/f3.png



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John

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