On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 10:40:32PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 12:20:22PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 04:51:43PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> > > okay made the changes to xvba & xvbb, went forward with the rhel5
> > > install, it
> > > wants to partition up the drives. which I let it do in its default way -
> > > which
> > > means I have a /boot, pv1, pv2.
> > > From the host machine how can I get to /boot for the vmlinux and the
> > > initrd?
> > > I am presuming I need these to insert into my xen config file !
> >
> > No need. Just use pygrub bootloader. eg instead of kernel + initrd config
> > options, use
> >
> > bootloader='/usr/bin/pygrub'
>
> This is a debian host, what package is this part of and will it look in the
> guest disks for this information ?
pygrub is a standard part of Xen 3.0.3 releases or later, so I'd hope its in
one of the Debian xen packages. As I mentioned below, it looks into the guest
disk to extract the default & initrd.
> > It will automatically look in /boot for the guest disk & extract the default
> > kernel & initrd. If you use 'xm create -c' it'll present you the usual grub
> > style menu for choosing a non-default kernel.
Regards,
Dan.
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