On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 01:57:15PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> 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.
great I wil track it down
>
> > > 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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