From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tony Jones Subject: Re: Xen "restarting system" on Fedora FC4 Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 12:59:04 -0800 Message-ID: <20050302205904.GA13617@immunix.com> References: <20050302193903.GA13145@immunix.com> <20050302200056.GA13348@immunix.com> <200503022011.38784.maw48@cl.cam.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200503022011.38784.maw48@cl.cam.ac.uk> Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Mark Williamson Cc: xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Rik van Riel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click