debuggers.hg
changeset 21044:fd6946ad6816
[PV-GRUB DOC] Add details to PV-GRUB documentation
Add a couple of documentation details about PV-GRUB support
- the menu.lst content can be passed as a ramdisk.
- virtual partitions are not supported.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Add a couple of documentation details about PV-GRUB support
- the menu.lst content can be passed as a ramdisk.
- virtual partitions are not supported.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
author | Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@citrix.com> |
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date | Fri Mar 05 14:30:45 2010 +0000 (2010-03-05) |
parents | b8d2a4134a68 |
children | e9d4cb54c551 |
files | stubdom/README |
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1.1 --- a/stubdom/README Wed Mar 03 17:41:58 2010 +0000 1.2 +++ b/stubdom/README Fri Mar 05 14:30:45 2010 +0000 1.3 @@ -52,11 +52,17 @@ kernel = "pv-grub.gz" 1.4 1.5 extra = "(hd0,0)/boot/grub/menu.lst" 1.6 1.7 -you can also use a tftp path (dhcp will be automatically performed): 1.8 +or you can provide the content of a menu.lst stored in dom0 by passing it as a 1.9 +ramdisk: 1.10 + 1.11 +ramdisk = "/boot/domU-1-menu.lst" 1.12 + 1.13 +or you can also use a tftp path (dhcp will be automatically performed): 1.14 1.15 extra = "(nd)/somepath/menu.lst" 1.16 1.17 -or you can set it in option 150 of your dhcp server and leave extra empty 1.18 +or you can set it in option 150 of your dhcp server and leave extra and ramdisk 1.19 +empty (dhcp will be automatically performed) 1.20 1.21 Limitations 1.22 =========== 1.23 @@ -69,6 +75,13 @@ export XEN_TARGET_ARCH=x86_32 1.24 - bootsplash is supported, but the ioemu backend does not yet support restart 1.25 for use by the booted kernel. 1.26 1.27 +- PV-GRUB doesn't support virtualized partitions. For instance: 1.28 + 1.29 +disk = [ 'phy:hda7,hda7,w' ] 1.30 + 1.31 +will be seen by PV-GRUB as (hd0), not (hd0,6), since GRUB will not see any 1.32 +partition table. 1.33 + 1.34 1.35 Your own stubdom 1.36 ================