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xen-devel
Re: [Xen-devel] Domain0 booting on LVM device
 
Ok, this may be a dumb question, but I wasn't aware I was using an 
initrd image ... I don't see any evidence of it in my menu.lst.
 I have built my xen0 kernel with everything static (I don't do a lot of 
modules).
 In my .config, I have "CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DM=y" ... shouldn't that take care 
of it?
 What's really bizare is that I can create guests over LVM LV's with the 
same kernel....
Thanks!
Sam
Robin Green wrote:
 
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Puthiyaparambil, Aravindh wrote:
 
I have Domain 0 booting off an LVM volume. It works fine.
 
 
Same here.
 
You most likely don't have an initrd image that has the Device Mapper
modules built into it. I don't have much experience with Debian but with
SLES9 the mk_initrd script does this for you as long as you have
compiled the dom0 kernel with the "Device Mapper support" as modules.
 
 
In Fedora-type systems it's mkinitrd. If you don't use the same type of
 root filesystem on the domU kernel as on the dom0 kernel, you may need 
to mount the domU / filesystem TEMPORARILY and use the --fstab option 
to mkinitrd to specify domU's /etc/fstab.
 
I also had to uncompress my initrd image using gunzip.
 
 
 Weird, I didn't have to do that with Fedora. What error did you get 
when you tried to boot with it uncompressed?
 
As a result of
this I had to increase the size of the initial RAM disk (under Block
Devices) in the dom0 kernel.
Cheers,
Aravindh
 
 
 
 
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