On Thu, Mar 13 2008 - 09:42, Sarton O'Brien wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:48:51 am Joel CARNAT wrote:
> > From what I remember, I use to set this flags so that NetBSD could see
> > the disk correctly - back to early 4.0_BETA if I remember well.
> >
> > It is still present in the doc
> > http://www.netbsd.org/ports/xen/howto.html#netbsd-domU
> >
> > So as you say, that's maybe just a bug|feature of new xen packages.
>
> Yes, I know it is still referenced (hence the mention about the docs) and it
> appears to be more wrong than I thought. Obviously if you were to specify
> anything it should be xbd0a, not wd0a.
>
> That aside, I've never used a 'root=' line except for linux and I've been
> tracking xen3 from very early on. I have this tendency to thin down configs
> as much as possible and went through all the absolutely required lines from
> the get go.
>
> The nbsd/xen domu kernel isn't much different from a normal kernel WRT to
> boot. I believe the kernel now accepts a 'root=' parameter but back when I
> first started playing with xen3, there was no such thing to my knowledge.
> Don't ask me what value the parameter actually needs ...
>
> To my knowledge, the 'root=' line has _always_ been linux specific WRT to
> xen3
> on nbsd.
Feels like a good knowledge :-)
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-xen/2007/06/17/0002.html
Regards,
Jo
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