Difficulties with FC4/xenU

[William Cohen]

Jeffrey Buell wrote:
> I installed the 2.6.11-1.1226 versions of xen0 and xenU.  xen0 boots fine and
> I'm able to run some small benchmarks.  I followed the Quickstart Guide
> closely but xenU wouldn't boot.  I only managed to get to the "repair
> filesystem" prompt. I discovered that the xenU file system didn't contain
> inittab, rc.d/rc.sysinit, or rc.d/rc files.  I copied over these files from
> xen0 and the boot went a little further, but still complained about missing
> things.  etc/init.d contains 90 files in the xen0 fs but only 43 files in
> xenU, and at least one of the missing ones is needed for boot.  I did
> groupinstall Base.  I could try copying over all of init.d but that doesn't
> seem like the right thing to do.
> 
> 1)  Has anybody successfully installed 2.6.11-1.1226 with Base, and did you
> get all the files needed to boot to runlevel 3?  Maybe my install was broken
> and I need to start over from scatch.

I was successful earlier this week.  One very helpful hint from Uli 
Drepper was to get the init files installed with the following:

rpm --noscripts --root /xen/base -vhi 
/xen/base/var/cache/yum/development/packages/initscripts-8.05-1.i386.rpm

You will need to adjust /xen/base the appropriate mount point.

> 2)  Should I use a different group than Base?  Is there info somewhere on the
> different groups available?

You should be able to use Base.

-Will