[Xen-users] probs running stuff from initrd

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Hello all

Now I may be way of whack here, so please forgive me.

I'm trying to merge xen with redhat's config-netboot. The idea being a 
kinda stateless domU. For those that haven't seen you share a rootfs and 
then bind mount all the individual files over then top, and the redhat 
gui builds all the pxeboot config and stuff for you if you want a 
diskless client. I thought this would be nice for our domU's but obviously
don't need the pxe bit.

I've got nfsroot domU's working, and was just wondering if it would be 
possible to mount the diskless initrd and run the diskless script from 
inside that.
First of all what do you think root should equal. For nfsroot you set 
it to /dev/nfs but the pxeconfig that get produced uses /dev/ram0
I've also set this

ramdisk = "/tftpboot/linux-install/RHEL4.1/initrd.img"

and then tried to pass init=disklessrc

But it does this ( with root= /dev/ram0 ):-

RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 5000KiB [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Freeing unused kernel memory: 184k freed
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found.  Try passing init= option to 
kernel.
Now that initrd has got a console (and a null) and I've tried passing 
various init= lines but nothing works. I've also tried rebuilding the 
initrd with links to init and linuxrc, but nothing.
What would I need to pass as a root= to be able to get it to run 
something in the initrd?
Sorry if none of this makes any sense.

Cheers for any help

Lee





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