[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#368531: Debian Xen kernel-image?

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 10:09:14PM +0200,
 Torsten Werner <mail.twerner at googlemail.com> wrote 
 a message of 30 lines which said:

> $ aptitude search '~nlinux-image.*xen.*'
> p   linux-image-2.6-xen-686          - Linux kernel 2.6 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/

Apparently, it is not yet in etch. 'aptitude search' produces
nothing. I took the ".deb" from the pool and installed them.

ii  linux-image-2.6-xen-686                                   2.6.16-12                                                 Linux kernel 2.6 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4 machines
ii  linux-image-2.6.16-1-xen-686                              2.6.16-12                                                 Linux kernel 2.6.16 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4 machines
ii  linux-modules-2.6.16-1-xen-686                            2.6.16-12                                                 Linux kernel modules 2.6.16 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4 machines

But it is not clear to me what I should put in grub
configuration. This package apparently does not come with an
initrd. So, I tried in grub:

title           XEN with Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6 Debian
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /boot/xen-3.0-i386.gz dom0_mem=32M
module          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-1-xen-686 root=/dev/sda1 ro console=tty0
savedefault
boot

Xen starts, then the kernel runs but it cannot mount the root device,
probably because there is no driver for my Adaptec AIC7XXX SCSI
controller.

The package linux-image-2.6.16-1-xen-686 seems strange. There is no
"config" file so I cannot know how it was compiled and its description
does not mention Xen (its only in the name).

aslan:~ % apt-cache show linux-image-2.6.16-1-xen-686
Package: linux-image-2.6.16-1-xen-686
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: base
Installed-Size: 1176
Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-kernel at lists.debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Source: linux-2.6
Version: 2.6.16-12
Provides: linux-image, linux-image-2.6
Depends: module-init-tools (>= 0.9.13), initramfs-tools (>= 0.53) | yaird (>= 0.0.12-8) | linux-initramfs-tool, linux-modules-2.6.16-1-xen-686 (= 2.6.16-12)
Recommends: libc6-i686
Suggests: linux-doc-2.6.16 | linux-source-2.6.16, grub (>= 0.97-3) | lilo (>= 19.1)
Conflicts: grub (<= 0.95+cvs20040624-17)
Description: Linux kernel 2.6.16 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4 machines
 This package provides the binary image and pre-built loadable modules for
 Linux kernel 2.6.16 on Pentium Pro/Celeron/Pentium II/Pentium III/Pentium
 4 machines.
 .
 This packages is produced using an updated kernel packaging system and
 replaces older kernel-image packages