[Fedora-xen] Xen Not Displayed in Boot Menu

Pasi Kärkkäinen pasik at iki.fi
Thu Jun 28 14:22:49 UTC 2012


On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:40:01PM -0500, Jerry Amundson wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 12:00:44AM -0700, sorabh hamirwasia wrote:
> >>    Hi,
> >>    I have installed "Xen" on Fedora16 host using "yum install xen" command
> >>    and it has been installed properly. I can see the changes in
> >>    /etc/grub2.cfg file too. But when I reboot then the entry for Xen is not
> >>    listed in the boot menu. On further analyzing I found that in
> >>    /etc/grub.conf there is no entry related to Xen. Do we need to modify
> >>    grub.conf manually ? If yes then how to do that. ?
> >>    Please help me with this.
> >
> > You can tweak the Xen hypervisor cmdline options in:
> > /etc/default/grub file, like this:
> >
> > GRUB_DEFAULT="Xen"
> 
> The only thing I see in fc17 (also) is a
> set default="Xen"
> line in /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
> 
> I've been waiting, hoping, and did a fresh install of Fedora 17, then
> "yum install xen", in anticipation (again) of Fedora/Xen/dom0 boot
> magic.
> Disappointment.
> 

And did you run "grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg" ?

What's the problem? 

-- Pasi



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