On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, . . wrote: > On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, Paul Wouters wrote: > > > >xenguest-install -n ftp.xtdnet.nl -f > > >/children/ftp.xtdnet.nl/ftp.xtdnet.nl.img --nographics -p -l > > > >ftp://dl.xs4all.nl/pub/mirror/fedora/core/6/i386/os/ -x "noacpi noapic" > > >-r 1024 > > > > > > > > >(the noapic noacpi was a test in the hope tht it would fix my issue). > > > > > >Also, I can still do xm shutdown and then I see the system halting. > > >Using kpartx and losetup, I checked the filesystems. They hasn't been > >any writing apart from formatting done to the disk. So no logfiles of > >the anaconda installer to see what went wrong either : > > >Paul > > Hi, > > I'm having exactly the same issue trying to load a new Xen guest system. My > setup is: > > AMD64, 1Gig RAM, SATA Hard disk > Fedora Core 6 x86_64 - Dom0 > > I'm using FC6 for the guest system also, installing to a partition of the hard > disk - /dev/sda15 > The installation source is an NFS mount of the FC6 DVD media (in the local DVD > drive). > > It gets to the "Starting install process. This may take several minutes..." > and just sits there. Every couple of minutes, the DVD drives spins up and > reads but nothing else happens - like it's stuck in a loop of some kind. The > log files in /var/log/xen don't give any clues. I did not get past this yet. I ended up doing a manual yum install with yum: yum -c yum-xen.conf --installroot=/mnt -y groupinstall Base Though perhaps next time I'll use a qemu install using the ISO DVD. Paul -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
