[tech] mermaid and mussel (was [ucc] minutes 2007-10-05)

[James Andrewartha]

On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, James Andrewartha wrote:

> Anyway, I picked up the server tonight and moved mermaid and coolstore on
> to it. It took a few tries to get the right hypervisor booting (we wanted
> the PAE one) but it was pretty smooth overall. A few niggles - it doesn't
> always reboot cleanly, sometimes it hangs in the hypervisor before the
> kernel is loaded. Serial (and therefore coke) is broken, it probably just
> requires some fiddling of the boot options. User logins are now off, as
> mermaid is now a dom0 and coke server only.

After an hour of fruitless playing around, Davyd had the idea of disabling 
setserial, upon which everything worked. I've copied /boot onto the 120GB 
drive, and am in the process of copying the rest of the filesystem on to 
the xenmachines VG on the same drive. After that's done the 4GB drive from 
mermaid can be removed and mussel's drive can be put in, turning mussel 
into a domU.

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