Re: [Xen-users] Creating an fc8 2.6.23 domu

[jim burns <jim_burn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 23 February 2008 09:34:44 am you wrote:
> root@Insp6400 02/23/08  9:23AM:/boot
> [512] > file vm*
> vmlinuz-2.6.21-2957.fc8xen:      gzip compressed data, from Unix, last
> modified: Sat Feb 16 22:13:23 2008, max compression
> vmlinuz-2.6.21.7-2.fc8xen:       gzip compressed data, from Unix, last
> modified: Tue Feb 19 20:46:01 2008, max compression
> vmlinuz-2.6.23.14-115.fc8PAE:    Linux kernel x86 boot executable
> RO-rootFS, swap_dev 0x1, Normal VGA
> vmlinuz-2.6.23.15-137.fc8PAE:    Linux kernel x86 boot executable
> RO-rootFS, swap_dev 0x1, Normal VGA
>
> Then:
>
> root@Insp6400 02/23/08  9:13AM:/boot
> [513] > gzip -c
> vmlinuz-2.6.23.14-115.fc8PAE>vmlinuz-2.6.23.14-115.fc8PAE.gz
>
> and I try to boot off of that kernel, and I still get the same error:
>
> root@Insp6400 02/23/08  9:32AM:/boot
> [515] > xm create fc8
> Using config file "/etc/xen/fc8".
> VNC= 1
> Error: (2, 'Invalid kernel', 'xc_dom_find_loader: no loader found\n')
> zsh: exit 1     xm create fc8

Umm - a little more info:

jimb@Insp6400 02/24/08  8:50AM:~
[666] > gunzip -c /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-2957.fc8xen>vm
jimb@Insp6400 02/24/08  8:51AM:~
[667] > file vm
vm: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), statically 
linked, not stripped

Apparently, the file format for a xen kernel is ELF, not kernel, as per 
2.6.23. How can I get an ELF format kernel from the rpmbuild of the 
2.6.23 .src.rpm?

Sadique?

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