Subject: Re: Basic questions -> Basic answers.
To: Christian Limpach <chris@pin.lu>
From: Juan RP <juan@xtraeme.unixbsd.org>
List: port-xen
Date: 04/27/2004 03:01:13
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On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 02:09:15 +0200
"Christian Limpach" <chris@pin.lu> wrote:
> Forgot to mention one thing: you'll have to pad the NetBSD/Xen kernel
> image such that its size is a multiple of 4 (doing ``echo -n a >netbsd''
> until it is works...). There's a bug in Xen which causes it to fail
> because Xen copies the image 4 bytes at a time and will stop short if the
> size is not a multiple of 4 (and it's fatal because it copies from the
> end to the beginning...).
Could be that the cause of the problem I saw yesterday? [*]
[*] I tried booting a NetBSD/Xen yesterday via grub with a cdrom,
(iso9660 image), but after that I had loaded the kernel (kernel --type=netbsd
/foo), trying to boot it with "boot", the machine was rebooted at the
moment, heh.
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Juan RP <juan@xtraeme.unixbsd.org>
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