Re: Bootstrapping a Linux domU from scratch in a NetBSD dom0

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 23:17:20 +0200
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:


> 
> Your vnd then needs a MBR parition table, with the root partition in
> partition 1 (the first partition).

Hmm -- I could try that.  I assume that that's nothing more than
running fdisk on the vnd file?

> Or try root = "/dev/hda ro",
> maybe it'll work.

It did -- it's now booting Linux properly.  Thanks!
> 
> > 
> > I found a web page that suggests I need an initrd entry:
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/fedora-xen%redhat.com@localhost/msg00308.html
> > However, I have no idea how to create one when I have no access to
> > Linux systems running 2.6.16.29 (that being the version I seem to
> > have obtained).
> 
> I used the linux kernel from xen 3.0.3, it doens't need a ramdisk.
> 
That's the one I was using, too.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb