Re: boot.cfg

[Christoph Egger <Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost>]

Robert Swindells wrote:
> Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 05:15:10PM +0100, Robert Swindells wrote:
>>>> Are you seeing some output on the serial console ?
>>> The two laptops that I have been using to test this don't have serial
>>> ports. I can try on another system though.
>>>
>>> If I don't specify a console then I get Xen output up to the line that
>>> reads "Xen is relinquishing VGA console.", then nothing until the login
>>> prompt appears.
> 
>> OK, so Xen uses both the serial and VGA console, and NetBSD thinks
>> it's a serial console. 
> 
>>> With "console=pc" nothing between boot(8) messages and
>>> the login prompt.
> 
>> So both thinks it's a serial console. Do you pass "console=pc" to the Xen
>> kernel, or the NetBSD kernel ?
>> For a VGA console (VGA only, no output on serial console at all) you need:
>> console=vga
>> passed to xen.gz, and
>> console=pc
>> or
>> console=tty0
>> passed to the NetBSD kernel.
> 
> That was it, I was missing the console=vga option to the Xen kernel.
> 
> The following will now work as a boot.cfg option:
> 
> menu=Boot Xen:modules enabled;load /netbsd-DOM0;multiboot xen.gz 
> dom0_mem=65536 console=vga -- bootdev=wd0a ro console=pc
> 
> If anyone wants to try it out there is a copy of boot(8) with the changes at:
> 
> <ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/rjs/boot>

I can boot a amd64 Dom0 with a 64bit Xen 3.3 just
out-of-the box. Great work!

Christoph