Re: Help with grub bootloader?

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 08:48:01AM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:
> Hi, folks!
> 
> I'm trying to install a XEN3 image in a hosted VPS (at prgmr.com if it
> matters).  The instructions provided tell me to copy my NetBSD kernel files,
> create a "menu.lst" file for the bootloader, and then boot.
> 
> Everything works great until I actually try to boot the INSTALL kernel. I
> get the following error message:
> 
>   Booting 'NetBSD install'
> 
> root (hd0,0)
>  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> kernel --type=netbsd /boot/netbsd-INSTALL_XEN3_DOMU
> 
> ERROR Invalid kernel: xc_dom_probe_bzimage_kernel: kernel is not a bzImage
> 
> 
> The boot loader identifies itself as "GNU GRUB  version 0.97"

is it grub or pygrub ?
If it's really grub then I guess the domU you have is HVM, not PV.
if so, you should not use the XEN kernels (these are for PV domUs) but
a plain i386 kernel. GENERIC has options multiboot, so it should be
loadable by grub.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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