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Re: NPF on domU - more clarity required



John Nemeth <jnemeth%cue.bc.ca@localhost> writes:

>      Even with a "normal" Xen setup, /boot.cfg in a domU is ignored
> as the kernel is loaded by the Xen hypervisor and not the NetBSD
> bootloader.

I clarified this in the HOWTO.

> On Dec 26, 11:32pm, Gerard Lally wrote:

> } As a sidenote, if there's a way of eliminating the grub cruft and using
> } NetBSD's boot manager instead I'd be glad to hear it.
>
>      No, there isn't a way.  This is something that is controlled
> by the service provider, and not the domU.

But if we made /boot be able to use PV ops, then we could ask people to
let it be a kernel choice :-)
Or, if pvgrub handled FFSv1 and FFSv2 well, we'd still have grub, but at
least not an extra faux root filesystem.

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