[Pkg-xen-devel] pygrub and xm-debian.cfg, other notes on lenny test

[Daniel Pocock]

I've just done a fresh lenny amd64 install, and taken the xm-debian.cfg 
example:

   
http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot/xen/xm-debian.cfg

and built a 32 bit lenny inside a 64 bit lenny dom0

  # xm create -c xm-th2.cfg install=true 
install-installer=http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/

When I try to boot the domU:

  # xm create -c xm-debian.cfg

it complains:

Error: Bootloader isn't executable


I found that I had to edit xm-debian.cfg and insert the full bootloader 
path:

if not xm_vars.env.get('install'):
    bootloader="/usr/lib/xen-3.2-1/bin/pygrub"
else:
    import os.path
    print "Install Mirror: %s" % xm_vars.env['install-mirror']

Apart from this one issue, the process went smoothly.

The only other thing I chose to change was the disk configuration, I 
just did:

  # lvcreate  -L 4G -n domU_root volg0

and then I used this disk config line in xm-debian.cfg:

  disk = ['phy:volg0/domU_root,xvda,w']

One other issue I see, the kernel package is not cleanly installed, 
although this hasn't stopped me using it:

# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-amd64 (2.6.26-11) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-xen-amd64
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-amd64 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-amd64
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)