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

[Liu Yu Fei, Eric]

no..I am using the stock kernel i686

Best regards,
Liu Yu Fei, Eric
Computer Science, CUHK


On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>