Re: XEN on a USB stick

[Eivind <gentoo.warrior@gmail.com>]

Hello All, 

Thank you all for your help, and I got it working by using the
previously released XenCD. Dumping the entire content of the CD onto
the usb stick and then install grub on it - works perfectly.

However, some tweaks was necessary. My FAT16 (0x06) FS does not
support filenames longer than 8 characters + the extension. menu.list
in /boot/grub (on my usb stick) must be changed appropriately.

Second, run grub and execute: 
- "root (hd1,0)" - this is the MBR of your usb stick (make sure you
are not choosing any other HD on your system ;o)
- "find /boot/grub/stage1" (make sure you are using the right path -
not your host system's /boot. On my system I must mount /dev/hda1 on
/boot. Instead, I created a symlink for /boot/grub to point to my usb
device boot/grub/ directory.
This last step should give you the options of the HDs in your system.
- "setup (hd1,0)" which points to my usb drive.

I am sure there is any other way to do this as well. But it works the
way I intended it to...

Again, Thanks a lot for your help
- Eivind


On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 20:13:36 -0500, Eric S. Johansson <esj@harvee.org> wrote:
> Eivind wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Does anyone of you have some experience with booting XEN of a usb
> > stick? I have been able to boot Linux from it, but never attempted
> > booting XEN of it. With a 512Mb USB stick you should at least be able
> > to boot a minimal version of LFS and DSL from it.
> 
> suggestion, start with Devil Linux.  Change the CD-ROM creation process
> to create a CompactFlash image.  This image would be loaded onto flash
> (duh) and stuck in a CompactFlash to IDE adapter.  Then, using the
> built-in capabilities of devil Linux to load up its configuration off of
> usb flash sticks.
> 
> then xenify it
> 
> --
> http://www.salon.com/books/review/2004/12/18/heloise/index.html
> 
> The basis of Abelard's philosophy, which he taught to Heloise, was
> that logic had to be applied to religion in order to arrive at the
> truth.
>


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