xen and fai

Michael Tautschnig michael.tautschnig at zt-consulting.com
Thu Aug 25 10:53:49 CEST 2005


> Hello
> 
> I'm still having troubles with FAI and XEN.  I'm trying to use FAI to
> install a virtual machine.
> 
> I made a virtual domain config file and filled in the nfsroot
> parameters.  I also made a xenU kernel and included in the FAI
> nfsroot.
> 
> When I create a domain it stops on the error that it can't find a hard
> disk.
> 
> However when I boot with the option sysinfo I do see in the end that
> it finds sda1.  But with the install it doesn't.
>
[...]

Well, it finds a partition, but not a whole disk. You need to use a hook for the
partition-task where you just create the filesystem and mount the partition(s).

Regards,
Michael



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