From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Whitcroft Subject: Re: Building domains as a lesser user (was Re: bootloaders for domain != 0) Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 10:23:53 +0000 Message-ID: <42034D39.5030409@shadowen.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: 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: Ian Pratt Cc: Jeremy Katz , xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl