Subject: Re: NetBSD/Xen How to - suggestions
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Martti Kuparinen <martti@NetBSD.org>
List: port-xen
Date: 02/06/2008 17:43:25
Manuel Bouyer kirjoitti:
>> 3) For some reason when I booted the xen.gz file as the kernel I got a
>> corrupted file error message. I tried several times to rebuild this
>> file without success on booting. If I uncompressed it and referenced
>> the uncompressed xen in the kernel line it booted without problem.
>> I don't know if there is something missing that while booting cannot
>> decompress the xen.gz or if there is a difference in how the
>> compression is done relative to decompression on boot.
>
> It looks like the html isn't up to date. The XML source has a note about
> grub limitation, that impose restrictions on the root filesystem
> (smaller than 512Mb, formatted as FFSv1, 8k block/1k fragments).
I have 20 GB root file system here...
ROOT xen1:~> df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/wd0a 19G 1.5G 16G 8% /
/dev/wd0e 203G 33G 160G 17% /xen
kernfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /kern
procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc
tmpfs 4.1G 16K 4.1G 0% /tmp
ROOT xen1:~> xm info
host : xen1
release : 4.0_STABLE
version : NetBSD 4.0_STABLE (XEN3_DOM0) #0: Fri Jan 25 12:42:36
EET 2008 root@xen1:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/XEN3_DOM0
machine : i386