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

[Thomas Goirand]

On 03/06/2013 06:10 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> 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

Ian, do you think it would make sense to have such line in the inittab
by default in Debian? It's always annoying Debian domU users, IMO (and
not only with XAPI).

> 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.

What's the most easy way to mount an XAPI domU partition, in an ext SR,
from the dom0? How to locate the device path? (I've done it often for PV
or HVM domUs with non-XAPI Xen Debian systems)

Cheers,

Thomas