system doesn't boot up with openvz kernel

tx1131 · 12-04-2011, 11:15 AM

Hi,

I just started using Debian and don't know much about the system. I have the following problem.
I installed minimal squeeze and tried to install openvz. I followed the instructions on the below www :

My system is i386 so I made the adjustments mentioned in the text. Kernel that was installed is linux-image-2.6.32-5-openvz-686.

Now the problem I have is that on this kernel system doesn't boot up. It gets to grub, then I choose the kernel version and it reboots again after few seconds. Debian version is 6.0.3-i386. Any hint what I can check to see what fails ? Is there a common issue with that etc?

After selecting kernel in grub before it reboots I get 2 lines:

Code:

    Loading Linux 2.6.32-5-openvz-686 ...
    Loading initial ramdisk ...

This is from grub from what I can see in config file:

Code:

    echo    'Loading Linux 2.6.32-5-openvz-686 ...'
    linux   /vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-openvz-686 root=/dev/mapper/vg0-root ro single
    echo    'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
    initrd  /initrd.img-2.6.32-5-openvz-686

I understand that it starts loading kernel and reboots. Any ideas what I'm missing here?

Thanks,
Konrad

klearview · 12-04-2011, 11:51 AM

No, not a common issue.

You say you followed instructions - but which ones?

Post a link or list what you did.

Installing OpenVZ on Squeeze is normally straightforward so let's retrace your steps.

tx1131 · 12-04-2011, 12:39 PM

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.
The link that was supposed to be in the oryginal message:

http://www.howtoforge.com/installing...-squeeze-amd64

I got to the reboot step obviously.

Regards,
Konrad