Re: Installing a NetBSD DomU on a file-backed disk

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

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:56:37AM -0400, Blair Sadewitz wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:18 AM, Manuel Bouyer 
> <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:
> 
> >> If I could just figure out how to get it to boot again after it's 
> >> installed ...
> >
> > I don't understand your problem; if you can boot a INSTALL_XEN3_DOMU or
> > INSTALL_XEN3PAE_DOMU kernel, why can't you boot a XEN3_DOMU or XEN3PAE_DOMU
> > kernel instead once installation is complete ?
> >
> 
> Well, there is an existing ext3 filesystem there which pv-grub can
> read from, so I can just tell it to boot the kernel by changing grub's
> configuration.  I'm getting rid of that filesystem with the installer
> and breaking it.  The problem is, put bluntly, that I don't know
> exactly what I'm doing, heh.
> 
> The original setup does not use any sort of partition table; it's just
> an ext3 filesystem.  Basically, what I need to know is how to give
> pv-grub whatever environment it wants so it's happy and will read a
> configuration file and boot my installation.

I guess a small ext2 partition with the config file and netbsd kernel
at the start of the virtual disk should be enough.

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