hi,
i am a newbie in linux and xen.

I have fedora-core 1,kernel 2.6.12

I first tried installing xen using its binary, but it had an error at boot up time, as—file missing.
But those files were present.

Later I tried installing it using its source and still had the same error.

Some changes were made and now there is some new error.

When I boot into XEN, from the boot loader menu screen, I get some 2 screens of start up, then the screen moves fast with all the details displaying and suddenly it blacks out and returns to the boot loader menu screen.

We cant read any error messages, if at all they are being displayed, since the screen doesn’t halt before it blacks out.

The modules I used are the same ones used by my team members in some other place and it has worked for them.

Since I am not very familiar with linux and also not much with the XEN s/w, I cant figure out what the problem could be.

Can u please suggest something ?
If any more details are required, please do tell.

Thank you.

You may be able to get information from /var/log/boot.msg and /var/log messages.

Instead of using the cat command to view the files (they can be very long), use tac, which reads files in reverse order (from end to beginning).

tac /var/log/messages | less, and tac /var/log/boot.msg, and look for errors.

This is part of the output i get by using the cmd --
$ tac /var/log/boot.log.1 |less

wat can be infered from this ?
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Mar 6 10:54:31 itlhw45514A cups: cupsd startup succeeded
Mar 6 10:54:30 itlhw45514A cups: cupsd shutdown succeeded
Mar 6 09:49:29 itlhw45514A messagebus: messagebus startup succeeded
Mar 6 09:49:29 itlhw45514A atd: atd startup succeeded
Mar 6 09:49:29 itlhw45514A anacron: anacron startup succeeded
Mar 6 09:49:28 itlhw45514A xfs: xfs startup succeeded
Mar 6 09:49:28 itlhw45514A crond: crond startup succeeded
Mar 6 09:49:27 itlhw45514A gpm: gpm startup succeeded
Mar 6 09:49:27 itlhw45514A sendmail: sm-client startup succeeded
Mar 6 09:48:27 itlhw45514A sendmail: sendmail startup succeeded
Mar 6 09:46:26 itlhw45514A xinetd: xinetd startup succeeded
Mar 6 09:46:26 itlhw45514A sshd: succeeded
Mar 6 09:46:26 itlhw45514A cups: cupsd startup succeeded
Mar 6 09:46:19 itlhw45514A ifup: Determining IP information for eth0...
Mar 6 09:46:19 itlhw45514A ifup:
Mar 6 09:46:19 itlhw45514A network: Bringing up loopback interface: succeeded
Mar 6 09:46:19 itlhw45514A ifup: Cannot get driver information: Operation not supported
Mar 6 09:46:19 itlhw45514A network: Setting network parameters: succeeded
Mar 6 09:46:19 itlhw45514A sysctl: kernel.core_uses_pid = 1
Mar 6 09:46:19 itlhw45514A sysctl: kernel.sysrq = 0
Mar 6 09:46:19 itlhw45514A sysctl: net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1
Mar 6 09:46:19 itlhw45514A sysctl: net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0
Mar 6 09:46:19 itlhw45514A iptables: succeeded
Mar 6 09:46:19 itlhw45514A kudzu: Updating /etc/fstab succeeded
Mar 6 09:46:19 itlhw45514A kudzu: Run '/usr/sbin/kudzu' from the command line to re-detect.
Mar 6 09:46:19 itlhw45514A kudzu: Hardware configuration timed out.
Mar 6 09:46:19 itlhw45514A kudzu: failed
Mar 6 09:46:23 itlhw45514A acpid: acpid startup succeeded
Mar 6 09:46:23 itlhw45514A smartd: smartd startup succeeded
Mar 6 09:46:23 itlhw45514A autofs: automount startup succeeded
Mar 6 09:46:22 itlhw45514A netfs: Mounting other filesystems: succeeded
Mar 6 09:46:22 itlhw45514A rc: Starting pcmcia: succeeded
Mar 6 09:46:22 itlhw45514A random: Initializing random number generator: succeeded
Mar 6 09:46:22 itlhw45514A nfslock: rpc.statd startup succeeded
Mar 6 09:46:22 itlhw45514A portmap: portmap startup succeeded
Mar 6 09:46:22 itlhw45514A irqbalance: irqbalance startup succeeded
Mar 6 09:46:22 itlhw45514A syslog: klogd startup succeeded
Mar 6 09:46:22 itlhw45514A syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
Mar 2 10:02:45 itlhw45514A syslog: klogd shutdown succeeded

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regards,
sheetal.