Re: [Xen-devel] Support for AGP aperture as IOMMU in AMD64 mode [2/2]

[Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> The AMD64 tree isn't building a bzImage in arch/x86_64/boot/ ,
> and the top level vmlinuz doesn't seem to work with GRUB
> (or I'm passing the wrong arguments, I'm not sure).
>
> Here's my grub boot line:
>       kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz-2.6.15-xen-dom0 root=/dev/hda5
>       initrd (hd0,0)/initrd-2.6.15-xen-dom0
>
> I get a GRUB error "Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable
> format" when I try to boot, though.

You need the kernel line to point to Xen.  Include the vmlinuz as a "module" 
line, and include the initrd as a second "module".

Grub can't boot the Xenified vmlinuz directly, but it can boot Xen and pass 
the Linux kernel to Xen as a module.

Cheers,
Mark


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