WARNING - OLD ARCHIVES

This is an archived copy of the Xen.org mailing list, which we have preserved to ensure that existing links to archives are not broken. The live archive, which contains the latest emails, can be found at http://lists.xen.org/
   
 
 
Xen 
 
Home Products Support Community News
 
   
 

xen-users

[Xen-users] Ramdisk Parameter in config file

To: <Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-users] Ramdisk Parameter in config file
From: "Bernard Golden" <bgolden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 15:43:07 -0700
Delivery-date: Thu, 25 May 2006 15:43:46 -0700
Envelope-to: www-data@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Importance: Normal
In-reply-to: <51D1F0F52CF63A4689328DDC077F7498A1C9A0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
List-help: <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=help>
List-id: Xen user discussion <xen-users.lists.xensource.com>
List-post: <mailto:xen-users@lists.xensource.com>
List-subscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-users>, <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=subscribe>
List-unsubscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-users>, <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=unsubscribe>
Sender: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I was having problems bringing up a guest OS, getting a "root not found" error. The config file, copied from the example file, had the ramdisk setting commented out. I uncommented it and the guest OS came up just fine.
 
Ramdisk is not really described, so my question is "what function does it perform?" If it's critical to getting guests up and running, why is it commented out in the example, which would seem to imply it's not critical to bringing guest OS systems up?
 
Bernard Golden
_______________________________________________
Xen-users mailing list
Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users