Re: [Xen-users] Guest-domain has no login

[Frank Morane <info@xxxxxxxx>]

trilok nuwal wrote:
> U have to add this line to /etc/inittab of guest to get the console up.
> "co:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty console" to /etc/inittab of guest
Hi,

I tried that with no success :-(
Tried on both Jailtime Centos 4 and 5 under FC7.

These works well under FC6 recompiled Xen guest images (as it would NOT 
work with FC6 version)
Looks like moving domU onto other (or newer) dom0 is far from an easy task.

Anyone with a success story to share?


> Thanks,
> -Trilok
> On 6/18/07, *Marcel Schroers* <schroers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:schroers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>     Hi *,
>
>     as this is my first post I want to say hello to everybody.
>
>     Well, and unfortunatly I've already got a question for you:
>
>     I've installed a guest domain (OS: CentOS 4) on my xen-machine and
>     it's para-virtualised (just to provide the information ;) ).
>
>     After the installation and mount the image containing the guest to
>     copy
>     the necessary modules for the xen-kernel, umount it and boot the
>     guest domain with
>     the xen-kernel. Everything seems fine except that udev seems to not
>     create any
>     console/tty or similar. Heres a snipped of the boot log:
>     ===
>
>                      Welcome to  CentOS release 4.5 (Final)
>                      Press 'I' to enter interactive startup.
>     Starting udev:  [  OK  ]
>     Initializing hardware...  storage network audio done[  OK  ]
>     Configuring kernel parameters:  [  OK  ]
>     Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method.
>     Use the --debug option to see the details of our search for an access
>     method.
>     Setting clock  (localtime): Mon Jun 18 12:04:30 CEST 2007 [  OK  ]
>     Loading default keymap (us): [FAILED]
>     Checking root filesystem
>     [/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /] fsck.ext3 -a /dev/sda1
>     /: clean, 34637/512000 files, 241019/1022127 blocks
>     [  OK  ]
>     Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode:  [  OK  ]
>     no block devices found
>     Setting up Logical Volume Management: [  OK  ]
>     Checking filesystems
>     Checking all file systems.
>     [  OK  ]
>     Mounting local filesystems:  [  OK  ]
>     Enabling local filesystem quotas:  [  OK  ]
>     Enabling swap space:  [  OK  ]
>     INIT: Entering runlevel: 3
>     Entering non-interactive startup
>        No volume groups found
>     Checking for new hardware [  OK  ]
>     Starting pcmcia:  [  OK  ]
>     Setting network parameters:  [  OK  ]
>     Bringing up loopback interface:  [  OK  ]
>     Bringing up interface eth0:  [  OK  ]
>     Starting system logger: [  OK  ]
>     Starting kernel logger: [  OK  ]
>     Starting portmap: [  OK  ]
>     Starting NFS statd: [  OK  ]
>     Starting RPC idmapd: [  OK  ]
>     Mounting other filesystems:  [  OK  ]
>     Starting automount: No Mountpoints Defined[  OK  ]
>     Starting smartd: [FAILED]
>     Starting cups: [  OK  ]
>     Starting sshd:[  OK  ]
>     Starting xinetd: [  OK  ]
>     Starting sendmail: [  OK  ]
>     Starting sm-client: [  OK  ]
>     Starting console mouse services: no console device found
>     [FAILED]
>     Starting crond: [  OK  ]
>     Starting xfs: [  OK  ]
>     Starting anacron: [  OK  ]
>     Starting atd: [  OK  ]
>     Starting system message bus: [  OK  ]
>     Starting HAL daemon: [  OK  ]
>     INIT: Id "co" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
>     INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel
>     ===
>
>     There are some error-messages which compplain about not finding any
>     consoles.
>     I would normally try to make some new ttys with mknod but
>     unfortunatly I can't
>     even login to the quest, after the last line the guest seems to hang
>     (the last two
>     lines beginning with "INIT" appear after a short time (about 2mins or
>     something)).
>
>     I've already searched here at the mailing list without success. I
>     hope I do not double post
>     a problem which is already known and solved (in this case maybe would
>     somebody post me the link
>     to the solution?)
>
>
>     Thanks i advance for any help.
>
>
>     Best Regards,
>       Marcel
>
>
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