[arch-general] Booting Arch under Xen via pv-grub. Was: Re: [signoff] kernel26 2.6.35.7-1

[Dan McGee]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 3:52 AM, Liu Yu Fei, Eric
<hoveringnowings at gmail.com> wrote:
> My VPS is also on Linode.
> I have just changed my mkinitcpio.conf to
>
> MODULES="xen-fbfront evtchn xenfs xen-blkfront xen-netfront xen-kbdfront
> netxen_nic"
> HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata scsi sata filesystems"
>
> However, when executing the command "mkinitcpio -k 2.6.35-ARCH", I got the
> following errors:
>
> ERROR: module 'xen_fbfront' not found
> ERROR: module 'evtchn' not found
> ERROR: module 'xenfs' not found
> ERROR: module 'xen_blkfront' not found
> ERROR: module 'xen_netfront' not found
> ERROR: module 'xen_kbdfront' not found
>
> And then I check for the kernel module files:
>
> darkwhite at www:~$ ls
> /lib/modules/2.6.35-ARCH/kernel/drivers/input/xen-kbdfront.ko
> ls: cannot access
> /lib/modules/2.6.35-ARCH/kernel/drivers/input/xen-kbdfront.ko: No such file
> or directory
> darkwhite at www:~$ ls
> /lib/modules/2.6.35-ARCH/kernel/drivers/net/xen-netfront.ko
> ls: cannot access
> /lib/modules/2.6.35-ARCH/kernel/drivers/net/xen-netfront.ko: No such file or
> directory
> darkwhite at www:~$ ls
> /lib/modules/2.6.35-ARCH/kernel/drivers/video/xen-fbfront.ko
> ls: cannot access
> /lib/modules/2.6.35-ARCH/kernel/drivers/video/xen-fbfront.ko: No such file
> or directory
> darkwhite at www:~$ ls /lib/modules/2.6.35-ARCH/kernel/drivers/xen/evtchn.ko
> ls: cannot access /lib/modules/2.6.35-ARCH/kernel/drivers/xen/evtchn.ko: No
> such file or directory
> darkwhite at www:~$ ls
> /lib/modules/2.6.35-ARCH/kernel/drivers/xen/xenfs/xenfs.ko
> ls: cannot access
> /lib/modules/2.6.35-ARCH/kernel/drivers/xen/xenfs/xenfs.ko: No such file or
> directory
> darkwhite at www:~$ ls
> /lib/modules/2.6.35-ARCH/kernel/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.35-ARCH/kernel/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic.ko
>
> So I am wondering whether there is something wrong during the packaging
> process?

Are you building your own kernel? These files are in the Arch stock
kernel package:

$ find /lib/modules/ -name 'xen*.ko'
/lib/modules/2.6.35-ARCH/kernel/drivers/net/xen-netfront.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.35-ARCH/kernel/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.35-ARCH/kernel/drivers/xen/xenfs/xenfs.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.35-ARCH/kernel/drivers/input/xen-kbdfront.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.35-ARCH/kernel/drivers/video/xen-fbfront.ko

$ find /lib/modules/ -name 'xen*.ko' | xargs pacman -Qo
/lib/modules/2.6.35-ARCH/kernel/drivers/net/xen-netfront.ko is owned
by kernel26 2.6.35.7-1
/lib/modules/2.6.35-ARCH/kernel/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.ko is owned
by kernel26 2.6.35.7-1
/lib/modules/2.6.35-ARCH/kernel/drivers/xen/xenfs/xenfs.ko is owned by
kernel26 2.6.35.7-1
/lib/modules/2.6.35-ARCH/kernel/drivers/input/xen-kbdfront.ko is owned
by kernel26 2.6.35.7-1
/lib/modules/2.6.35-ARCH/kernel/drivers/video/xen-fbfront.ko is owned
by kernel26 2.6.35.7-1