Re: netbsd as a non-domain0 os : init problem

[Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach%cl.cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 08:44:20PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 11:42:48PM -0000, Christian Limpach wrote:
> > Yes, you're missing a NetBSD disklabel on your disks/images.  It should 
> > work if you specify the raw partition as the root device, i.e.
> > extra = "bootdev=xbd0d"
> > 
> > Btw, the kernel config file you used doesn't seem to have the wd/sd 
> > identities for the block devices enabled?  Your exported disks would 
> > otherwise appear as sd0 and sd1 and not xbd0 and xbd1 and the bootdev 
> > argument would be sd0d...
> 
> In the bouyer-xen2 branch, the wd/sd identities for xbd are not supported any
> more. They conflict with the read wd/sd drivers, and I don't see much values
> for this in non-domain0 OSes.

I guess this functionality can be brought back at some point.  It's nice
to be able to boot the same filesystem with a xen and with an i386 kernel.
Not as important for domU on xen 2.0 as it used to be for dom0 on xen 1.2
though...

    christian