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Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?



Hello,

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On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 09:01 +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:03:13AM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
> 
> > I upgraded a dom0 I maintain to Lenny, the kernel got upgraded and I had
> > of course a boot failure when trying to boot Xen 3.2 and linux 2.6.26.
> > I'm not really sure about the reason since it is a remotely hosted box,
> > but I had to go back to 2.6.18.
> 
> Something is fishy with your boot configuration. I've multiple dom0s
> running lenny; kernel 2.6.26 is installed of course, but grub always
> puts the Xen-enabled 2.6.18 before 2.6.26, so the new kernel won't be
> booted unless you select it manually.

Notice that I didn't say it booted without intervention. While my
xen-enabled 2.6.18 is not the first option, the default is set for the
correct one by update-grub, it seems (4).

This is my menu.lst file contents:

title           Xen 3.0.3-1-i386-pae / Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-1-xen-686
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /xen-3.0.3-1-i386-pae.gz
module          /vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-xen-686 root=/dev/md1 ro panic=30 console=tty0
module          /initrd.img-2.6.26-1-xen-686

title           Xen 3.2-1-i386 / Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-1-xen-686
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /xen-3.2-1-i386.gz
module          /vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-xen-686 root=/dev/md1 ro panic=30 console=tty0
module          /initrd.img-2.6.26-1-xen-686

title           Xen 3.0.3-1-i386-pae / Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-1-686-bigmem
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /xen-3.0.3-1-i386-pae.gz
module          /vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686-bigmem root=/dev/md1 ro panic=30 console=tty0
module          /initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686-bigmem

title           Xen 3.2-1-i386 / Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-1-686-bigmem
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /xen-3.2-1-i386.gz
module          /vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686-bigmem root=/dev/md1 ro panic=30 console=tty0
module          /initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686-bigmem

title           Xen 3.0.3-1-i386-pae / Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-6-xen-686
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /xen-3.0.3-1-i386-pae.gz
module          /vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-xen-686 root=/dev/md1 ro panic=30 console=tty0
module          /initrd.img-2.6.18-6-xen-686

title           Xen 3.2-1-i386 / Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-6-xen-686
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /xen-3.2-1-i386.gz
module          /vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-xen-686 root=/dev/md1 ro panic=30 console=tty0
module          /initrd.img-2.6.18-6-xen-686

title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-1-xen-686
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-xen-686 root=/dev/md1 ro panic=30
initrd          /initrd.img-2.6.26-1-xen-686

title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-1-xen-686 (single-user mode)
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-xen-686 root=/dev/md1 ro panic=30 single
initrd          /initrd.img-2.6.26-1-xen-686

title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-1-686-bigmem
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686-bigmem root=/dev/md1 ro panic=30
initrd          /initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686-bigmem

title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-1-686-bigmem (single-user mode)
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686-bigmem root=/dev/md1 ro panic=30 single
initrd          /initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686-bigmem

title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-6-xen-686
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-xen-686 root=/dev/md1 ro panic=30
initrd          /initrd.img-2.6.18-6-xen-686

title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-6-xen-686 (single-user mode)
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-xen-686 root=/dev/md1 ro panic=30 single
initrd          /initrd.img-2.6.18-6-xen-686

title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-6-686-bigmem
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-686-bigmem root=/dev/md1 ro panic=30
initrd          /initrd.img-2.6.18-6-686-bigmem

title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-6-686-bigmem (single-user mode)
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-686-bigmem root=/dev/md1 ro panic=30 single
initrd          /initrd.img-2.6.18-6-686-bigmem

See you,

-- 
Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov@debian.org>
Debian Project

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