[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#702369: Bug#702369: Bug#702369: can't install wheezy from template

[Ian Campbell]

On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 10:10 +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> 
> The domU boots as a PV, but the login prompt is never displayed.  I can
> view the console boot messages with VNC, but no login prompt appears in
> the console.  The machine is otherwise working fine and can't be
> accessed with an ssh login.  I think this has something to do with
> inittab and the terminal device names changing. 

Correct, you need to adda getty on hvc0, e.g:

H0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L hvc0 115200 vt102

Unfortunately that probably means you need to flip back to HVM mode to
change it, or use kpartx etc to mount the guests fs from dom0.

Ian.