Re: boot(8) diffs

[Christoph Egger <Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost>]

On Friday 10 October 2008 11:53:55 Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 06:11:54PM -0700, Andrew Gillham wrote:
> > I like the idea of having it in the man page for boot &| installboot
> > and a pkgsrc message.  Commented out I'm not as sure about since
> > uncommenting it won't really "just work" anyway.  Even after
> > installing Xen it will need some tweaking to match locations, kernels,
> > bootdev.
> >
> > Would it make sense to have a meta package that pulls in xenkernel,
> > xentools, a dom0 kernel and makes a /boot.cfg change?  Or at least
> > recommends the change?  I'm thinking something like
> > /usr/pkgsrc/meta-pkgs/xen33 or similar.  That way the install scripts
> > could use the real installed paths of xen & dom0 kernels, the current
> > root file system, and maybe even hw.physmem to figure out a safe
> > dom0_mem= value.
> >
> > For most cases a "make install" would result in a system that could be
> > rebooted into Xen.
>
> I don't like the idea of a package fiddling with /boot.cfg.
> But xenkernel33 could have a MESSAGE with the right line to add, or/and
> a share/example file.

Alternatively, the /boot.cfg can contain some proper configuration entries 
commented out by default.

xenkernel3 and xenkernel33 can have a MESSAGE telling the user
to uncomment those lines.

Christoph