Re: Debian Linux DomU

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 03:28:05PM +0000, Étienne wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> Has anyone here recently tried to boot a Debian DomU in a NetBSD Dom0 ?
> Finding the right kernel with the right init ramdisk is quite a bit of
> a pain, as the documentation seems not to have followed the evolution
> of the various Linux distribution (I'm not blaming anyone for that).
> The problem lies in the network driver in the DomU kernel not being able
> to work with the network interfac or/and the filesystem provided by the
> NetBSD Dom0 (for the filesystem, I have only tried with phy: devices).

How old is your NetBSD Dom0 (and what version) ?
I added the needed bits to the dom0's network backed to get he
Debian lenny install kernel to boot; this was last september but is only
in -current and netbsd-5 (not netbsd-5.0 so not in NetBSD 5.0.2)

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