Re: [XenPPC] Question about netbooting with initrd/initramfs

[David M Daly <dmdaly@xxxxxxxxxx>]

apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 01/27/2007 11:02:03
PM:

> On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 04:39:39PM -0500, David M Daly wrote:
> > I've been having some trouble netbooting linux on a JS21 with
an initramfs
> 
> Getting a builtin initramfs to work on PPC is tricky.  The only
way I
> have found to do it is a fragile two-stage process.  
> 

Amos, thanks for the recipes. I've been able to get
some initramfs functionality working using them, and I was able to netboot
it. 

> I assume that you want to build an initramfs necessary and sufficient
to
> run xend and launch a domU, so in the following I describe one technique

I want to do two things with the initramfs:
1. Run xend as you suggest
2. Boot a utility image to set some things up for
a later boot (flash SLOF, configure HBA/SAN settings). This does not require
xend running. 

I'll post a followup if I get xend working from an
initramfs. 

Thanks again. 

David Daly
Research Staff Member
32-003 IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Yorktown Heights, NY, 10958
(914) 945-1845, T/L 862-1845

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