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Hi Iain,
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 02:17:28PM +0000, Iain Lane wrote:
> So, the time has come with the Lenny release for me to consider
> upgrading my VPS from etch. I remember a thread a few months ago where
> it was mentioned that Lenny's kernel had problems acting as a Xen domU.
> Is this still the case? Any other gotchas that I should be aware of?
In January I upgraded all the hypervisors and so you shouldn't have
any issues.
I would advise keeping a known working grub.conf with an Etch kernel
in it as one of the boot options, though, to begin with.
A Lenny boot stanza needs to look like this:
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-1-xen-686
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-xen-686 root=UUID=2ffd4d00-8acb-4f0d-b188-a612392c3678 console=hvc0 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-xen-686
Note the "console=hvc0"
Likewise in /etc/inittab you need:
co:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 hvc0
Also "hvc0" in /etc/securetty, but I think the normal package
upgrade does that.
And finally make sure udev is installed, but I think it is on Etch
so should remain there.
Cheers,
Andy
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