klozovin's questions

Actually, it's not that I need a replacement for qmail, I already found one: Postfix. I need a replacement for the rest of the email stack, that works well with Postfix. My current setup constists of qmail, vpopmail, qmailadmin, and few others.

The stack should be able to handle a lot of email for a few hundreds of virtual domains. Email accounts for the virtual domains have to be managed through the web (adding new accounts, forwards, mailing lists, etc), but adding new virtual domains can be done in CLI. Of course, there should be a POP and IMAP server, and some antispam protection.

So, what software do you guys use in the wild together with Postfix?

here's the thing: I have Debian Lenny running Xen dom0, and I want to install another Debian Lenny as domU. I followed the guide at Debian Wiki to the letter. Installation goes fine until Debian installer tries to install Grub, it fails with this error:

Installation step failed

An installation step failed. You can try to run the failing item again from the menu, or skip it and choose something else. The failing step is: Install the GRUB boot loader on a hard disk

If I ignore that, complete the installation and try to boot the machine, I get this:

Loading, please wait...
Begin: Loading essential drivers ... done.
Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount ... FATAL: Error inserting fan (/lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686-bigmem/kernel/drivers/acpi/fan.ko): No such device
FATAL: Error inserting thermal (/lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686-bigmem/kernel/drivers> /acpi/thermal.ko): No such device
[ 0.608267] blkfront: xvda1: barriers enabled
done.
Begin: Mounting root file system ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ... done.
Begin: Running /scripts/local-premount ... done.
mount: cannot read /etc/fstab: No such file or directory
Begin: Running /scripts/local-bottom ... done.
done.
Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom ... mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: No such > file or directory
done.
mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory
mount: mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: No such file or directory
Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init.
No init found. Try passing init= bootarg.

My .conf file for Xen is pretty simple:

kernel = '/vmlinuz'
ramdisk = '/initrd.img'
memory = 256
vif = ['bridge=xenbr0']
disk = [ 'file:/xen/root.img,hda1,w' ]

Any ideas where to start hunting for the problem? I'm pretty stumped.