Subject: Re: netbsd as a non-domain0 os : init problem
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk>
List: port-xen
Date: 02/26/2005 20:30:00
On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 08:44:20PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 11:42:48PM -0000, Christian Limpach wrote:
> > Yes, you're missing a NetBSD disklabel on your disks/images. It should
> > work if you specify the raw partition as the root device, i.e.
> > extra = "bootdev=xbd0d"
> >
> > Btw, the kernel config file you used doesn't seem to have the wd/sd
> > identities for the block devices enabled? Your exported disks would
> > otherwise appear as sd0 and sd1 and not xbd0 and xbd1 and the bootdev
> > argument would be sd0d...
>
> In the bouyer-xen2 branch, the wd/sd identities for xbd are not supported any
> more. They conflict with the read wd/sd drivers, and I don't see much values
> for this in non-domain0 OSes.
I guess this functionality can be brought back at some point. It's nice
to be able to boot the same filesystem with a xen and with an i386 kernel.
Not as important for domU on xen 2.0 as it used to be for dom0 on xen 1.2
though...
christian