On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 06:50:59PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 02:37:00PM +0200, Johan Ihren wrote:
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> > On 29 Jun 2007, at 01:00, Sarton O'Brien wrote:
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> > >This happened to me a few weeks ago on one of my domus. I just  
> > >removed the
> > >root= line from the config and all was good. I must have copied and  
> > >pasted
> > >from somewhere for that one.
> > >
> > >root= has never been needed.
> > 
> > From the present version of the howto guide:
> > - ---------
> > # Set root device. This one does matter for NetBSD
> > root = "/dev/wd0d"
> > - ---------
> > 
> > While I appreciate the difficulties of keeping documentation in sync  
> > I think "root= has never been needed" may be an overstatement. And I  
> > use "root=" on dozens of domU's all the time. But that's Xen2.
> 
> I'll have to double-check this. I don't think xen2/NetBSD uses it either.

OK, a NetBSD xen2 domU works fine without the "root = " line. I think I
intended to write "This one does *not* matter for NetBSD". But Linux domUs
will need it.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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