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

[Guido Trotter]

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 11:50:55PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

Hi,

> > $ 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.
> 

No, it's not... but you can get them from sid or from backports.org!

> 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:
> 

As other people have said you need to specify the initrd as an additional
module! And to create it with yaird or mkinitrd (usually kernel packages don't
come with an initrd but build one at install time... this is not the case for
xen, because of kernel-package)! 

> 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).
> 

The config file should be in /boot just under a slightly different name!

Guido