Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:29:33 +0100 From: Le Cocq Michel <Michel.Lecocq@lipn.univ-paris13.fr> To: Matt Pounsett <matt@conundrum.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xen howto: inexplicable "Kernel image does not exist" error Message-ID: <474E5C4D.6060903@lipn.univ-paris13.fr> In-Reply-To: <AE693B32-2060-468C-A5C1-F073B93AA201@conundrum.com> References: <AE693B32-2060-468C-A5C1-F073B93AA201@conundrum.com>
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I'm in front of the same trouble, did you find a solution ? M Matt Pounsett a écrit : > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > I'm trying to get FreeBSD running under Xen on a RedHat RHEL5 box. I > seem to be stumped really early in the process by something... > strange. I don't have a good explanation for it, other than Xen doing > something weird, and thought I'd ask if anyone else had seen something > similar. All the information I've found googling this error relates > to users forgetting to install key packages, which doesn't seem to be > related here. > > Basically, I'm following the directions at > http://www.yuanjue.net/xen/howto.html. When I hit step 4, and try to > run "xm create", xen complains: > > # xm create -c freebsd_xen_INSTALL > Using config file "./freebsd_xen_INSTALL". > Error: Kernel image does not exist: > /home/mattp/FreeBSD-XENU/freebsd-XENU_INSTALL > > However, that kernel file does exist: > > # ls -l /home/mattp/FreeBSD-XENU/freebsd-XENU_INSTALL > - -rw-r--r-- 1 mattp users 7379253 Aug 26 2006 > /home/mattp/FreeBSD-XENU/freebsd-XENU_INSTALL > > I'm using the config file suggested by the instructions with only two > changes: > 1) change the 'kernel' reference to the kernel file listed above > 2) change the 'disk' reference to the image file created in step 1 (I > also tried without this change) > > Am I missing something here? Looks to me like either Xen is trying to > chroot somewhere before loading the kernel (don't see anything > relevant in the config file I downloaded) or something is broken > somewhere. > > Has this been seen before, or does anyone have suggestions about where > to check for the error? > > Matt > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) > > iD8DBQFHHPGpmFeRJ0tjIxERAgC3AKCWWmRyK3PgI0NXH2FZDEUE4ZBeIwCeP0ZI > qTEXAYowhmspZCDlN2HMW68= > =JSqE > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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