Hi Jens-Christian,
You might want to check the following URL:
http://usefulthings.org.uk/operating-systems/linux/suse/xen-and-suse-93
Although it's focused on Suse, it could be useful.
Rene
On Sun, 2006年03月19日 at 09:55 +0100, Jens-Christian Fischer wrote:
> I have installed Xen 3.0.1 on a Debian Sarge base system (see [1],
> [2], [3] for details) with image files as drives for the guest
> operating system.
>
> My problem is, that the swap "device" on /dev/sda2 is not recognized
> by the guest OS:
>
> INIT: version 2.86 booting
> * Files under mount point '/dev/shm' will be hidden.
> Will now activate swap.
> swapon on /dev/sda2
> swapon: cannot stat /dev/sda2: No such file or directory
> * Swap activation failed with error code 255.
> Will now check root file system.
>
> the configuration file looks like this:
>
> kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-xenU"
> memory = 512
> name = "notes"
> root = "/dev/sda1 ro"
> vif = [ '' ]
> disk = [ 'file:/home/xen/domains/notes/big.img,sda1,w',
> 'file:/home/xen/domains/notes/swap,sda2,w' ]
>
> and /etc/fstab
>
> /dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
> /dev/sda2 none swap sw
> proc /proc proc defaults
>
> I tried both "sda" and "hda" devices - with no change in behaviour.
>
> /dev/sda2 is not visible in the guest operating system.
>
> An older image with the debian base system (base-config not yet
> executed) that the above image was evolved from works fine:
>
> INIT: version 2.86 booting
> Activating swap.
> EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal
>
> Any ideas? My Xen-fu is quite young :-)
>
> thanks
> Jens-Christian
>
>
> [1]: http://blog.invisible.ch/2006/03/09/installing-xen-30-on-debian-sarge/ 
> [2]: 
> http://blog.invisible.ch/2006/03/14/installing-lotus-domino-654-in-debian-xen/ 
> [3]: 
> http://blog.invisible.ch/2006/03/18/configuring-x-and-domino-server-on-debian-sarge-xen/ 
>
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