Description of problem: Running an installation of Debian-6 with grub2 does not give a running DomU. Most patches for this are included in RHEL5.6, but the following patch could still be added: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=599243 best regards, Florian La Roche Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Florian, where can I get the images of Debian 6.0 to install as a PV guest? The only installation I'm having is an ISO image for HVM net installation and nothing else. Do you have any pointers where to find the images for PV guest installation? Thanks, Michal
Hello Michal, basic info is available at http://wiki.debian.org/Xen Even shorter: wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/xen/xm-debian.cfg Maybe set the following items: memory, name, vif, disk and change to bootloader="/usr/bin/pygrub" in that script. Then start an installation with: xm create -c xm-debian.cfg install=true \ install-mirror="http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian" \ install-extra="auto=true hostname=debian domain=cz.redhat.com" Maybe also set "install-arch=amd64"... Then first reboot should be with "xm create -c xm-debian.cfg" that should need the above fix to work correctly. best regards, Florian La Roche
Created attachment 479113 [details] Patch to support grub2(hdX/msdosY) style partition definition Hi, this is the patch to support "(hdX, msdosY)" partition syntax for grub. This has been tested on RHEL-5 dom0 with Debian-6.0 PV guest and without this patch applied it failed with error message that msdos1 is not a valid int but with this patch applied the guest booted up successfully. Michal
QA verified this bug with xen-3.0.3-126.el5: 1. install a PV debian guest os according to comment #2. 2. boot the guest after os installation, the guest could boot successfully. So change this bug to VERIFIED.
*** Bug 691391 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1070.html