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Re: [Xen-devel] Xen x devfs

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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Xen x devfs
From: I RATTAN <rattan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 20:32:42 -0500 (EST)
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On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Ian Pratt wrote:

>
> > I have tried to compile under Mandrake-9.1. Make oldconfig discards
> > most of the Mandrake options (I have had no success with make menuconfig
> > also). I do not have a compatible NIC, so cannot comment on that. How can
> > one preserve the working config settings of Mandrake with a view of
> > xenolinux compilation?
>
> I expect the options that make oldconfig discarded were all for
> various hardware drivers -- in Xen 1.2, hardware drivers go in
> Xen, not xenolinux, so this is correct.
>
> Were there any non-hardware related options that were being
> rejected that you needed?

I think that your statment is correct.

> > For a change I tried it under VMWare-4 work station. The boot process
> > starts, NIC (pcnet32) is detected bu xenollinux hangs during boot. I
> > vaguely recall that VMWare does not allow certain part of memory to
> > be allocated for OS (but misplaced the info). I can post the messges
> > to hang point if someone is interested.
>
> That's very odd. Lots of people usedXen/Xenolinux under VMWare
> just fine. Does VMWare boot the XenDemoCD OK? If so, I suspect

I only tried booting from xen-1.2 CD, so, available memory might be the
factor here.

> > > I haven't heard success reports or otherwise with Mandrake [can
> > > anyone else on the list comment?], but there's no reason why it
> > > can't be made to work -- we'll be happy to help you do so.

Looks like devfs is the culprit here, boot process fails with complaint
about root= message (even though /dev/hda5 is specified). Probably
time to try redhat..

-ishwar


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