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Re: [Xen-devel] domain0 initrd vs grub

To: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] domain0 initrd vs grub
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:23:20 +0000
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You don't specify the initrd with 'initrd' but as another module. That
is, this line:
          initrd /initrd-2.6.9-prep.img
should be:
          module /initrd-2.6.9-prep.img

GRUB only groks 'initrd' lines for Linux kernels -- not for multiboot
kernels. :-)

 -- Keir


> It looks like grub isn't entirely happy with the following
> construction:
> 
> title Xen 2.0 / Xenolinux 2.6.9-1.658_FC4
>          root (hd0,0)
>          kernel /xen-2.6.9-2.gz dom0_mem=180000
>          module /vmlinuz-debug root=/dev/hda2 ro debug 3 verbose xencons=off
>          initrd /initrd-2.6.9-prep.img
> 
> It refuses to boot up, giving the error message:
> 
>       Error 19: Linux kernel must be loaded before initrd
> 
> I'm looking at the grub sources to figure out how to work
> around this...
> 
> -- 
> "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
> Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
> by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
> 
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