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Re: [Xen-devel] PV Grub Questions


  • To: "Samuel Thibault" <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel mailing list" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: "Marco Sinhoreli" <msinhore@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:06:40 -0300
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Hi Samuel,

The pv-grub can read the cdrom but the OS installer can't identify the
vbd as cdrom driver. Do you know how can I fix it? There is this
feature in Xen for paravirt domains?


Regards,


On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Samuel Thibault
<samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Marco Sinhoreli, le Thu 28 Aug 2008 13:51:11 -0300, a Ãcrit :
>> Using pv-grub is possible install a system from cdrom using a kernel
>> with pv_ops?
>
> You should be able to feed pv-grub with a menu.lst that fetches the
> kernel and initrd from the cdrom, yes; i.e. put in the config file
>
> kernel=/usr/lib/xen/boot/pv-grub-x86_64.gz
> ramdisk=/tmp/menu.lst
> disk=...
> vif=...
>
> where /tmp/menu.lst contains for instance
>
> root=(hd1)
> kernel /vmlinuz
> initrd /initrd.img
> boot
>
> Samuel
>



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Marco Sinhoreli
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