Re: Xen on Dedibox

[Gerard Lally <gerard.lally%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 1 Mar 2017, at 12:29, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 12:16:18PM +0000, Gerard Lally wrote:
> > Should Xen work on a GPT partitioning layout? I installed Xen on a
> > Dedibox from Online.net but the system would not boot into Xen. After a
> > delay it would boot back into a normal netbsd kernel.
> 
> I don't understand how it would go back to the normal kernel if the
> default is the Xen entry. AFAIK there is no fall-back mechanism in the
> boot loader if the default entry doesn't work.
> 
> Make sure that both disks of the raid1 are properly synchronised.

I don't understand why it boots to the default kernel either.

I use David Brownlee's method[1] to set up raidframe on GPT. I always
allow parity to complete, if that's what you mean.

In principle, raid+wedges+GPT shouldn't cause a problem for Xen, I take
it? The dom0 kernel has the necessary options included?

Unfortunately I can no longer test this machine because I've moved to a
different provider, and my new machine won't be available till tomorrow.

I should have added that this was with NetBSD-7 (around August 2016) and
Xen from pkgsrc-2016q2.

[1] https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2015/06/16/msg016252.html