Subject: Re: NetBSD/xen kernel failures?
To: Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-xen
Date: 10/20/2006 20:49:46
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 08:18:46PM +0200, Juan RP wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:16:19 +0200
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> wrote:
> 
> > I already noticed that grub has troubles reading ffs in some
> > circunstances (it  fails to find the file, or loads the wrong
> > blocks). What parameters do you have for / ? I suspect for a working
> > grub, you need a 8k/1k block/fragment size, ffsv1 only.
> 
> Looks like there's a size limit in grub loading kernel files, because
> days ago when I added the bluetooth devices into XEN2_DOM0
> I had this error too.
> 
> My workaround was to compress it with gzip, worked perfectly.

Hum, the issues I had was with loading smaller kernels, I think.
After repartitionning, with a small 8k/1k / partition I could load the
kernel.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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