Re: Xen Hurd domU not starting

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hello!

On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 12:30:53PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Thomas Schwinge, le Sat 02 Aug 2008 12:30:47 +0200, a écrit :
> > I set-up swap. native-install completed without problems.  (So the
> > domU is up and running now, and I can proceed to configure it as
> > needed.)
> 
> Mmm, in my memory enabling swap was strongly recommended by hurd howtos,
> shouldn't that be done in single mode?

No, at least not when freshly installing a system: the swap-space node in
/dev/ doesn't exist yet, and mach-defpager is not running by default.
You have to do this:

    cd /dev/ && ./MAKEDEV hdX && mach-defpager && swapon /dev/hdX


> > The domU has configured 100 MiB RAM.  So that seems to be not enough for
> > running native-install.  Perhaps we should document that somewhere?
> 
> Possibly yeah.

I'll try to find an appropriate location in the wiki.


Regards,
 Thomas

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