From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eivind Subject: XEN CD --> USB stick Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:59:23 -0800 Message-ID: Reply-To: Eivind Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, jared@wordzoo.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Hello all, (cc'd Jared, the author of XenCD) I have moreover a general question regarding the construction of XenCD. As you probably know, XEN does not yet support USB. Although, with a new BIOS I am able to boot the XEN cd from my usb stick using the same image - a pure cp -Ra xencd/* /mnt/usb/. Now, since I cannot mount a usb stick to the /dev/sda* it becomes more complicated to start other example domains as available on the CD (there is no /boot/). Reverse engineering the image by taking the user space ram disk, unzip it and mount it through a loopback device gives me access to the filesystem which I can modify. However, the disk is too small so I need to use 'dd if=/dev/zero of=...' to make another image which I copy the entire existing FS to, compress it and then try to boot from it. This does not work - kernel panic. Could someone please get me some instruction on how this work? Thanks in advance - Eivind ------------------------------------------------------- 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