On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, K T Ligesh wrote: > Allright, I think I got the issue. I am trying to boot a centos 4.1 on a fc6. Now fc6 initrd, even the custom created one, has nash-hotplugd, which has to be killed before starting udev, but this logic is not there in the initscripts of centos-4.1. So I have to basically hand craft an initrd that will kill off this nash-hotplug in the initrd itself, if it has to work with all the older distros. I don't think that is the reason for not getting a login prompt. The nash-hotplug can be annoying. I've had to kill it in the past too. I infact disable hotplay/udev on those older images, and just use a MAKEDEV and create the devices I need, To fix your login problem do this: mount -o loop centosfs dir cd dir (or login via ssh to the running centos box) cd dev ; /dev/MAKEDEV null zero random urandom console tty pty hda xvd loop (this uses the MAKEDEV script in the /dev/ of dom0 to create nodes in the /dev of the guest image) mknod dev/xvc0 c 25 187 (cause there is some confusion about which major/minor to use) edit inittab and change the mingetty for tty2 to xvc0, eg: 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty xvc0 (change tty2 not tty1 because in a normal "working" situation, tty1 will be mapped to the xen virtual console already, you do not want to break that) And do: echo "xvc0" >> etc/securetty (to allow root logins) I also made a xenU ramdisk for my images, on dom0: mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6xenU.img --with=xennet --preload=xenblk (again note to redhat: PLEASE include xennet/xenblk in the xen ramdisk, even if the dom0 strictly does not need it. It will allow everyone to re-use the same initrd when not using pygrub with disk images, but kernel=/ramdisk= statements with a rootfs) Paul -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
