Re: Xen "restarting system" on Fedora FC4

[Tony Jones <tony@immunix.com>]

On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 08:11:38PM +0000, Mark Williamson wrote:
> > > As for the initrd comment from Mark. The domU rpm from RH doesn't
> > > provide one.  There is one provided by the dom0 rpm.   I'm sure I
> > > can create one if necessary, I would have expected the RH rpm to do
> > > it. Do you specify the initrd in the "ramdisk=" config option?
> >
> > The domU kernel doesn't usually need an initrd, since
> > ext3 is compiled in.  Once we have a "boot loader" for
> > the unprivileged domains, we can get rid of the xen0
> > and xenU kernels, and have just one kernel-xen ...
> 
> I thought the initrd was needed on Fedora so that udev would work?  Is that 
> not correct?

Mark/Rik.

You are correct. I needed an initrd. Perhaps the warning about "unable to open
console" should be more than a warning :)

It now boots to single user.

Also, it's "ramdisk = *.img" not "initrd = *.img".

I had to generate a modules.dep file first for the U kernel and had to
run initrd with --omit-scsi-modules as otherwise it complained about
there not being a module for sata_sil.

Thanks much.

Tony


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