Re: domU single-user mode?

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.lip6.fr@localhost>]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 04:56:48PM +0200, Florian Heigl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this is ridiculous and easy, too. 
> it has been nagging me for some weeks, and it postponed it until today, when 
> I needed it.
> 
> how do I pass flags to the kernel, i.e. to boot into single-user mode for 
> filesystem work?
> 
> xm help create contains
> extra=ARGS
> Set extra arguments to append to the kernel command line.
> Default None
> 
> but trying to following had no success: 
> 
> kernel = "/export/data/xen/dom2/netbsd-XENU"
> extra = "-s"
> cpu = -1
> memory = 64
> name = "dom2-netbsd"
> nics = 1
> disk = [ 
> 'file:/export/data/xen/dom2/root,hda1,w','file:/export/data/xen/dom2/usr1,hda2,w'
> ]
> [...]
> 
> do me a favour and help me out here, honenstly I even think this should go 
> into the howto or port-xen site 
> at some point, because it's one of the rare occasions were xen and i386 
> differ :>

Righ now this isn't supported. Adding support for a '-s' flag on the kernel
command line shouldn't be too hard, though.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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