15 Feb
2009
15 Feb
'09
2:17 p.m.
Hi,
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?
Iain
15 Feb
15 Feb
2:33 p.m.
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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5:13 p.m.
Hi,
Thanks for the tips. Most of the way there, one problem remains [see below].
Andy Smith wrote:
Also "hvc0" in /etc/securetty, but I think
the normal package
upgrade does that.
Yeah, this was there.
And finally make sure udev is installed, but I think
it is on Etch
so should remain there.
It was and still is.
Now the problem I'm having is with configuring the new kernel (this was
the only dpkg issue with the upgrade, not bad). Here's the output:
laney@cripps:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
Setting up linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-686 (2.6.26-13) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-xen-686
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
warning: grub-probe can't find drive for /dev/sda1.
grub-probe: error: Cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sda1. Check your
device.map.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-686 (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-2.6-xen-686:
linux-image-2.6-xen-686 depends on linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-686; however:
Package linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-686 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6-xen-686 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-xen-686:
linux-image-xen-686 depends on linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-686; however:
Package linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-686 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-xen-686 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-686
linux-image-2.6-xen-686
linux-image-xen-686
I tried to create a device.map but it didn't change anything. This looks
a lot like [0], so I guess this is a genuine bug.
Any ideas? I guess I should still be fine with etch's kernel, but I'd
obviously like to have Lenny's one if possible.
Iain
[0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=511587
5:23 p.m.
Ironically I was just having the same issue; after googling it was in
fact an old post by Andy that sorted things out for me :D
http://lists.bitfolk.com/lurker/message/20080529.142153.954fedf4.el.html
2009/2/15 Iain Lane <iain(a)orangesquash.org.uk>uk>:
Hi,
Thanks for the tips. Most of the way there, one problem remains [see below].
Andy Smith wrote:
Also "hvc0" in /etc/securetty, but I
think the normal package
upgrade does that.
Yeah, this was there.
And finally make sure udev is installed, but I
think it is on Etch
so should remain there.
It was and still is.
Now the problem I'm having is with configuring the new kernel (this was
the only dpkg issue with the upgrade, not bad). Here's the output:
laney@cripps:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
Setting up linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-686 (2.6.26-13) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-xen-686
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
warning: grub-probe can't find drive for /dev/sda1.
grub-probe: error: Cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sda1. Check your
device.map.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-686 (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-2.6-xen-686:
linux-image-2.6-xen-686 depends on linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-686; however:
Package linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-686 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6-xen-686 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-xen-686:
linux-image-xen-686 depends on linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-686; however:
Package linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-686 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-xen-686 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-686
linux-image-2.6-xen-686
linux-image-xen-686
I tried to create a device.map but it didn't change anything. This looks
a lot like [0], so I guess this is a genuine bug.
Any ideas? I guess I should still be fine with etch's kernel, but I'd
obviously like to have Lenny's one if possible.
Iain
[0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=511587
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5:40 p.m.
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:23:24 +0000
Mat Johns <mat(a)cyberfish.org> wrote:
Ironically I was just having the same issue; after
googling it was in
fact an old post by Andy that sorted things out for me :D
http://lists.bitfolk.com/lurker/message/20080529.142153.954fedf4.el.html
Thanks Mat, doing that has enabled me to install the 2.6.25 kernel
without errors
No I just need the courage to do a reboot ;-)
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5:50 p.m.
Mat Johns wrote:
Ironically I was just having the same issue; after
googling it was in
fact an old post by Andy that sorted things out for me :D
http://lists.bitfolk.com/lurker/message/20080529.142153.954fedf4.el.html
Good find, thanks! I just had to change xvda to sda but it all worked.
Forwarding it to the Debian bug for information too (the link above will
show you a method to work around this error. Maybe it can be
incorporated into the packaging somehow?)
Iain
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