Re: Xen root filesystem on disk with gpt partitions

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

On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 02:36:20PM -0700, Brook Milligan wrote:
> 
> > On Dec 13, 2022, at 1:24 PM, Brian Buhrow <buhrow%nfbcal.org@localhost> wrote:
> > 
> > 	hello.  Here is a sample boot.cfg file which boots NetBSD by partition name, rather than
> > by disk number.
> > 
> > menu=Boot normally:rndseed /var/db/entropy-file;boot NAME=root:netbsd
> > menu=Boot single user:rndseed /var/db/entropy-file;boot NAME=root:netbsd -s
> > menu=Boot serial console:rndseed /var/db/entropy-file;consdev com0;boot NAME=root:netbsd
> > menu=Boot single user (serial console):rndseed /var/db/entropy-file;consdev com0;boot NAME=root:netbsd -s
> > menu=Drop to boot prompt:prompt
> > default=1
> > timeout=5
> > clear=1
> 
> Thanks for this.
> 
> For Xen booting, a combination of load and multiboot is required.  For example, the following line in /boot.cfg works:
> 
> menu=Boot Xen:load /netbsd.gz root=dk1 console=pc;multiboot /xen.gz dom0_mem=512M
> 
> How can I replace the ?root=dk1? part to refer to the root partition by gpt name?
> 
> I have tried replacing the ?dk1? part with the name of the partition as well as ?NAME=name?, but neither works.  I have tried to use the ?root? command prior to ?load?, but that does not work either.
> 
> Is it possible to do this when booting Xen?

AFAIK no, the root= command line will only handle device names.

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