Re: [Xen-devel] Loading FreeBSD in an HVM-domain on Intel-based host with GRUB

[Igor Chubin <igor@xxxxxxx>]

On Do, Feb 07, 2008 at 09:41:18 +0100, Christoph Egger wrote:
> 
> FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/amd64 boot fine if you do NOT load the acpi driver.


On Intel ?
Using /boot/loader ?



> 
> Christoph
> 
> 
> On Thursday 07 February 2008 09:34:40 Keir Fraser wrote:
> > Actually I thought the FreeBSD issues were to do with vmxassist (which I
> > finally removed from xen-unstable yesterday) but I see there are problem
> > reports with amd64 as well. Still, it would be good if you could try
> > booting FreeBSD with latest xen-unstable, else point me at a suitable
> > FreeBSD ISO to download which exhibits this issue?
> >
> >  -- Keir
> >
> > On 7/2/08 08:26, "Igor Chubin" <igor@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > please tell me,
> > >
> > >
> > > is it possible (at least theoretically)
> > > to circumvent bug 622 [1] by using
> > > GRUB instead of /boot/loader to load FreeBSD kernel?
> > >
> > > Or it is silly idea: even if we bypass /boot/loader we will
> > > not be able to run FreeBSD kernel in a HVM-domain on a
> > > Intel-based host for some other reason?
> > >
> > >
> > > As far as I know, GRUB can't load FreeBSD kernel
> > > directly, but only can make chainloading using /boot/loader.
> > > Certainly, it is not the solution, but there were patches
> > > to GRUB that allow to boot FreeBSD directly [2].
> > >
> > > I want to try to use it and eliminate /boot/loader
> > > from boot process at all.
> > >
> > >
> > > What can you say about this idea?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > [1] http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=622
> > > [2] http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?10728
> >
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