Re: NetBSD/xen kernel failures?

[John D. Baker <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>]

On 20 Oct 2006, at 13:49, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 08:18:46PM +0200, Juan RP wrote:
> > On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:16:19 +0200
> > Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > > I already noticed that grub has troubles reading ffs in some
> > > circunstances (it  fails to find the file, or loads the wrong
> > > blocks). What parameters do you have for / ? I suspect for a working
> > > grub, you need a 8k/1k block/fragment size, ffsv1 only.
> >
> > Looks like there's a size limit in grub loading kernel files, because
> > days ago when I added the bluetooth devices into XEN2_DOM0
> > I had this error too.
> >
> > My workaround was to compress it with gzip, worked perfectly.
>
> Hum, the issues I had was with loading smaller kernels, I think.
> After repartitionning, with a small 8k/1k / partition I could load the
> kernel.

Ok, I tried gzip-ing things.  This seemed to work for the rebuilt
stock XEN3_DOM0 kernel.  No change on anything else.

After some trial and tribulation, I converted my / partition to
ffsv1 with 8k block and 1k fragment sizes and reinstalled grub.
Still no change.

The NetBSD/xen kernels that boot successfully cause the following
message when trying to start a DomU:

    [Error 2] No such file or directory: "/kern/xen/balloon"


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