From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
To: Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>, xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Building domains as a lesser user (was Re: bootloaders for domain != 0)
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 10:23:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42034D39.5030409@shadowen.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A95E2296287EAD4EB592B5DEEFCE0E9D1236FE@liverpoolst.ad.cl.cam.ac.uk>
Ian Pratt wrote:
>>On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 02:30 +0000, Ian Pratt wrote:
>>
>>>One fairly simple option is to use Linux as a domU boot loader. Boot
>>>with an intrd, mount the specified filesystem, read off
>>
>>grub.conf, display a menu over
Well I don't think it even being grub compatible is necessary. I'd say
it looking a little like lilo, yaboot and the like would do just fine.
What a splendid idea! I think this would be _very_ easy with a very
small script out of initrd? Or _even_ out of rc2.d!?!
read -p 'boot: ' kernel
kexec /boot/$kernel
-apw
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-04 10:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-04 9:38 Building domains as a lesser user (was Re: bootloaders for domain != 0) Ian Pratt
2005-02-04 10:23 ` Andy Whitcroft [this message]
2005-02-04 13:21 ` Building domains as a lesser user (was Re: [Xen-devel] " Jeremy Katz
2005-02-04 17:36 ` Andy Whitcroft
2005-02-04 13:20 ` Jeremy Katz
2005-02-04 13:27 ` Mark Williamson
2005-02-04 13:47 ` Jeremy Katz
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