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Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] kernel and xen parameters

To: Tristan Gingold <Tristan.Gingold@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] kernel and xen parameters
From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:31:55 -0600
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On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 16:26 +0200, Tristan Gingold wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> during a fresh installation I had problem with root= elilo option.  It appear 
> elilo prepend root= and read-only to the command line.  Because of '--', they 
> are eaten by xen and not passed to the kernel.  This is not the expected 
> behaviour.
> 
> How could this be fixed ?
> I propose to create a new elilo option, vmm-param="xxx"
> We could later get rid of the '--', which is IMHO a good thing.
> 
> Any better ideas ?

   What about adopting something more like what grub does and simply
provide vmm option on the vmm= line after the image file?  Something
like:

image=xenlinuz
        label=xen
        vmm=xen.gz dom0_mem=2048M
        read-only
        append="root=/dev/sda2" 

It would be nice to even go a step further and do the same with kernel
parameters, removing the append line.  I think this would all have to be
done while maintaining backwards compatibility for the current method
though.  Thanks,

        Alex

-- 
Alex Williamson                             HP Open Source & Linux Org.


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