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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Using Debian packages

> Close, but not quite.
>
> You can take a vanilla 2.6.10 or the Debian patched 2.6.10. I would
> recommend the Debian patched one. You uncompress the kernel-source
> somewhere, copy in your .config, that is fine.
>
> The command you wish to run is:
>
>   make-kpkg --added-patches=xen --arch=xen --subarch=xen0
> --revision=xenserver.0.1 debian
>
> This patches the kernel and creates the ./debian directory in your
> source. After that you can run:
>
>   make ARCH=xen menuconfig
>
> And tune it to your liking. And after that, you compile the kernel:
>
>   make-kpkg --added-patches=xen --arch=xen --subarch=xen0
> --revision=xenserver.0.1 kernel-image
>
> And you are done. Not all of the flags need to be present in all
> phases, but it doesn't hurt either. Do also note that make-kpkg has
> some problems with --initrd combined with --arch=xen, so don't do
> that.

Thanks a lot for outlining the steps above.

But since I haven't succeeded in getting any xen kernel to boot yet, I 
probably need to spell out what I've done so far (at least for my self)...
I haven't really used grub until now, so maybe that's a reason to my troubles.

I was able to compile and install the kernel for dom0.
After install /boot directory now looks like this:

-rw-r--r--   1 root root  542011 Jan 20 03:47 System.map-2.4.27-2-386
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  546234 Mar 18 00:35 System.map-2.6.10
-rw-r--r--   1 root root       0 Mar 18 17:47 bootdir.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   44853 Jan 20 02:53 config-2.4.27-2-386
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   25807 Mar 18 00:23 config-2.6.10
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root    1024 Mar 18 16:08 grub
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 3878912 Mar 18 16:07 initrd.img-2.4.27-2-386
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   12288 Mar 18 16:03 lost+found
-rw-r--r--   1 root root      39 Mar 18 00:35 patches-2.6.10
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  816260 Jan 20 03:47 vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-386
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  115165 Mar 18 17:08 xen-linux-2.6.10

And I manually added this to /boot/grub/menu.lst:

title  XenLinux 2.0.5
root  (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/xen.gz dom0_mem=131072
module /boot/xen-linux-2.6.10 root=/dev/sda6 ro console=tty0

Nomatter what I've done so far I get grub error 15:

15 : File not found
This error is returned if the specified file name cannot be found,
but everything else (like the disk/partition info) is OK.

I more or less just pasted the menu.lst from documentation with a few changes. 
And noticed that xen kernerl xen.gz is missing in /boot directory. I've then 
tried to copy xen.gz from xen binary distribution, but I still get error 15.

Any help is really appriciated since I've been struggling with this for quite 
a while.

Thanks 
-- 
Med venlig hilsen / Best regards
Lars E. D. Jensen 
lars@xxxxxxxxxxx


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