Hi
I wrote a very similar question some hours ago for Debian, which maybe got no replies becuase nobody is interested in running Debian on fedora.
The sad thing is, with the same problems and effects, I also don't get a Fedory system running that I instelled with yum. So, just replace debian with fedora 6 and debootstrap with yum in the mail below.
Again, This same system runs fine with Xen from xensource, but I'd like to use the Fedora Xen packages, for the security updates and stuff.
There must be something special in the Fedory Kernel that does make systems from "normal" partitions not work somehow, or something like that.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Henning Sprang henning_sprang@gmx.de Date: Dec 18, 2006 1:27 AM Subject: Getting Debian domU running on fedora with fedora-native packages (works with xensource binaries) To: fedora-xen@redhat.com
Hi, I built a Debian domU on Fedora using debootstrap (which is really easy, when using alien to create a debootstrap rpm).
This VM runs very fine on fedora fc 6 with xen and the xen-linux kernel provides by xensource, and when built from sources.
When trying to use it with the fedora xen packages and kernels, I have absolutely no luck.
First, I was hanging on error message like "could not mount root device on /dev/root" (sorry, I don't have it at hand, becaue I just removed the fedora packages and used the xensource packages again, to be sure it really still works there).
I got past that by creating an initrd with --with=xennet --preload=xenblk options, and boot the domU with this instead ofthe initrd that comes with the fedora xen kernel package.
But then, the domU hangs on "starting crond..." I have no idea what is missing there, I already installed udev additionally, but that doesn't help.
As said, this same system runs with no problem on FC6 with the xensource binaries.
BTW: I run the system without pygrub and not with the kernel from disk, but with the kernel= options...
Henning