On Jul 26, 2010, at 7:05 AM, Wendy William wrote:
> No error message. The installation show Slackware boot: press ENTER or F2.
> But when I press ENTER or F2 then nothing happend.
>
> I am using Slackware 13.1 32 bit.
I haven't done this since Slackware 11 for a client, but at the time the
Slackware kernels didn't have the Xen guest extension. So I was never able to
complete an emulated CD-based installation ... [1]
So, the last time I ran Slackware as a domu I think I ran pkgtool with a
different target dest: to the domu disk mounted in the dom0. Like installing
Debian/Ubuntu with debootstrap. And then I booted off a custom-built kernel
located the host (no pygrub). ... except I can't remember how I would have
gotten pkgtool on my non-Slackware dom0 ... it's also possible that I did such
an installation on a loop-mounted disk image on a Slackware installation, and
then copied that image over and dd-ed it to my domu's disk. (Even tarballing
it over would work fine if you have the right options, though I suspect I went
the dd route.)
YMMV since it's been years since I did this, it but could give you some other
avenues to try besides CD-based install.
Eric
[1] I typically avoid emulated CD installs anyhow because they are tedious
(hard to automate/script). I prefer some sort of installation from the host:
debootstrap, Gentoo untar/chroot. I guess it breaks down with CentOS guests
where I don't exactly do this: instead of using a CD, I boot to
os/$arch/images/xen/{vmlinuz,initrd.img} with kickstart options. I think there
was some tool more like debootstrap for this I looked at several years ago
(called "rope"?) but it was unmaintained at the time.
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