Subject: Re: Bootstrapping a Linux domU from scratch in a NetBSD dom0
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-xen
Date: 04/07/2007 11:20:26
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 07:07:22PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 23:17:20 +0200
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> > 
> > Your vnd then needs a MBR parition table, with the root partition in
> > partition 1 (the first partition).
> 
> Hmm -- I could try that.  I assume that that's nothing more than
> running fdisk on the vnd file?

Yes, that should be enough. Actually mine is a real disk image; as I did
install booting a real linux install media in a HVM guest, and converting it
to a Xen guest after install ...

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