Subject: Re: latest dom0 can't findroot
To: Johan Ihren <johani@johani.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-xen
Date: 06/29/2007 18:50:59
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 02:37:00PM +0200, Johan Ihren wrote:
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> On 29 Jun 2007, at 01:00, Sarton O'Brien wrote:
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> >This happened to me a few weeks ago on one of my domus. I just  
> >removed the
> >root= line from the config and all was good. I must have copied and  
> >pasted
> >from somewhere for that one.
> >
> >root= has never been needed.
> 
> From the present version of the howto guide:
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> # Set root device. This one does matter for NetBSD
> root = "/dev/wd0d"
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> 
> While I appreciate the difficulties of keeping documentation in sync  
> I think "root= has never been needed" may be an overstatement. And I  
> use "root=" on dozens of domU's all the time. But that's Xen2.

I'll have to double-check this. I don't think xen2/NetBSD uses it either.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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