xen discuss - Nov 2007 - Dunno what or which kernel binaries that I compiled I should use

Hi I just compiled the ON kernel phew!! Being new to the whole thing I would
like to know what files should I be replacing in the /platform/i86pc folder. I
have so far copied the new unix binary file to the /platform/i86pc/kernel folder
and updated GRUB as well but when I make this kernel selection on boot then I
get a message to load multiboot first. The funny thing is that when I make
changes in GRUB to run /platform/i86pc/multiboot GRUB says multiboot is no
longer supported.

Please let me know what other binaries, files or changes I am supposed to be
modifying.

Thanks in advance.
Bhaskar.
 
 
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Bhaskar Jayaraman wrote:
> Hi I just compiled the ON kernel phew!! Being new to the whole thing I
> would like to know what files should I be replacing in the
> /platform/i86pc folder. I have so far copied the new unix binary file to
> the /platform/i86pc/kernel folder and updated GRUB as well but when I
> make this kernel selection on boot then I get a message to load
> multiboot first. The funny thing is that when I make changes in GRUB to
> run /platform/i86pc/multiboot GRUB says multiboot is no longer
> supported.
you shouldn''t do anything by hand!
I''m assuming you ran ''make all'' in usr/src/uts; you
should follow that by a
call to "Install -n <other options>", you can then un-tar the
resulting
tarball either on the same machine or on your test machine. Follow that by 
"bootadm update-archive" and reboot.

if you really want to use xVM, as sending email to xen-discuss indicates, 
everything you need will go into /platform/i86xpv.

HTH
Michael
-- 
Michael Schuster	Sun Microsystems, Inc.
recursion, n: see ''recursion''

Thanks Michael, yes I compiled the kernel in the usr/src/uts directory and I was
instead using /usr/sbin/install and it just wouldn’t work so I thought of making
the changes manually. As of now when I'm trying to use
/opt/onbld/bin/Install, I am being asked to set $SRC for the kernel sources and
I'm not sure what value must go there??

Also once I get the tar ball on which folder am I supposed to untar it before
proceeding with bootadm?

Regards,
Bhaskar.
 
 
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On Tue 11/20/07 at 04:30 AM, bhaskar.jayaraman@lsi.com
wrote:
> Thanks Michael, yes I compiled the kernel in the usr/src/uts directory
> and I was instead using /usr/sbin/install and it just wouldn?t work so I
> thought of making the changes manually. As of now when I''m trying
to use
> /opt/onbld/bin/Install, I am being asked to set $SRC for the kernel
> sources and I''m not sure what value must go there??
> 
> Also once I get the tar ball on which folder am I supposed to untar it
> before proceeding with bootadm?
You should really read the OpenSolaris developer''s docs:
	http://opensolaris.org/os/community/on/devref_toc/

It will make your life much easier.

The section that addresses this specific question is:
	http://opensolaris.org/os/community/on/devref_toc/devref_5/