Re: [Xen-users] How to make an initrd for xen

[Shahzad Chohan <shahzad.chohan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Many Thanks for all your replies.

I did this but it sill doesn't boot up rhel 3. I'm kind of new to this
initrd area, I thin the issue relates to FC4 running a 2.6 kernel
while rhel 3 runs a 2.4 kerenl. Am I right?

If this is the case how can I make an initrd for the 2.4 kernel from FC4.

Many Thanks
Shaz

On 6/30/05, Jon Howse <jonny.fahrenheit451@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You need the xenU kernel installed as well as the xen0 kernel and then
> you need to do:-
> 
> touch /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4xenU/modules.dep
> This creates a file called modules.dep in specified directory. mkinitrd
> will complain if this file does not exist!
> 
> then:-
> 
> /sbin/mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.11-1.1369xenU.img 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4xenU
> 
> The filename you specify for the initrd can be anything but notice I've
> specified it to be in the /boot directory and descriptive of the kernel
> version.
> 
> The last argument is the kernel version you want to make an initrd from.
> We want this to be the kernel we will be using in our guest domain(your
> EL3 machine).
> 
> This will create an initrd that you can specify in your domain config
> file for your EL3 virtual machine.
> 
> I have done this many times under Fedora, you should have no problems
> with this technique.
> 
> Jonny
> 
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