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Re: [Xen-devel] Problems building xeno-unstable

To: Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Problems building xeno-unstable
From: Xiaofang Chen <xiachen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 01:30:35 -0600 (MDT)
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Ian,

Thanks so much for your patient replies.
I just find that the README file has this info.
Sorry about my careless.

Thanks.
Xiaofang


On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Ian Pratt wrote:

>
> > I just rebuilt xeno-unstable.bk in my machine according to the 'HOWTO' by 
> > Bin Ren.
> > Everything goes well except that I cannot get a xenolinux.gz file.
> > I have built this unstable version before, and everything is ok.
>
> The howto is out of date. Just type 'make world' at the top
> level. (If you haven't already got a pristine linux src tar ball
> at the top level it attempts to download one.)
>
> All of the files that are built are placed under the ./install
> directory. E.g. looking in install/boot/ :
>
>  install/boot/xen.gz             The Xen 'kernel' (formerly called image.gz)
>  install/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.26-xen0  Domain 0 xenolinux kernel (xenolinux.gz)
>  install/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.26-xenU  Unprivileged xenolinux kernel
>
> The difference between the two linux kernels that are built is
> due to the configuration file used for each. The "U" suffixed
> unprivileged version doesn't contain any of the physical hardware
> device drivers, so is 30% smaller and hence may be preferred for
> domains>0.
>
> The install/boot directory will also contain the config files
> used for building the xenlinux kernels, and also versions of xen
> and xenlinux kernels that contain debug symbols (xen-syms and
> vmlinux-syms-2.4.26-xen0) and are hence essential for
> interpreting crash dumps.
>
>
> Your grub config will thus look something like the following:
>
> title Xen running Linux 2.4.26
>          root(hd0,0)
>          kernel /boot/xen.gz dom0_mem=131072 watchdog com1=115200,8n1 noht
>          module /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.26-xen0 root=/dev/hda1 ro
>
> The old "console=" xenlinux option is typically unnecessary as it
> now has more sane defaults: by default, domain0 will grab the
> screen and keyboard directly (tty1) and also access the serial
> line via Xen (ttyS0). This means that most distribution's start
> up scripts (in particular /etc/inittab) should work without
> modification.
>
>
> Somebody should put this message in a howto ;-)
>
> Ian
>
>
>
>
>
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