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Ochi

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Registered: 2010-04-06

Posts: 51

Booting (installation) kernel after 2013.11.01 on a Xen-based vserver

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to net-boot a virtual server (a JiffyBox, http://www.jiffybox.de/) with pvgrub using a vmlinuz and initrd.img from the Arch installation ISO. In fact this works just fine when using the kernel from the 2013.11.01 installation image, but fails without any error message with any version after that (the machine just reboots).

So my basic question here is: Have there been any changes after the 2013.11.01 installation image/kernel which may influence Xen/PV guest support? By the way, I think the step from 2013.11.01 to 2013.12.01 also included the switch from kernel 3.11.x to 3.12.x.

As a reference, this is what I do in the pvgrub 0.97 console for booting the machine - assuming that a tftp and http server providing the installation files is available under IP "<IP>":

dhcp
ifconfig --server=<IP>
root (nd)
kernel /arch/boot/x86_64/vmlinuz ip=:::::eth0:dhcp archisobasedir=archiso/arch archiso_http_srv=http://<IP>/
initrd /arch/boot/x86_64/archiso.img
boot

Thanks,
Ochi