Hi! Is booting a Linux kernel compiled for the Xen ARCH possible with LOADLIN from DOS? The docs say I need GRUB; and I''m only asking because, for a mysterious reason, LILO, GRUB, and the NetBSD bootloader just don''t see my hard disk and cannot boot it. However, the FreeBSD, DOS, Windows NT, QNX and Plan9 bootloaders work fine, even if the partition I boot from is over the 1024th cylinder, etc. So I guess my best bet I to try to load a XenoLinux from DOS with LOADLIN... And why the GRUB requirement? Anyway, thanks :) -- /Varga Péter/ ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It''s fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel
On 1/6/2005 8:43 AM, Kero-Chan wrote:> Hi! > > Is booting a Linux kernel compiled for the Xen ARCH possible with > LOADLIN from DOS?You probably want to ask if it''s possible to boot Xen using a different bootloader and then have a copy of xenolinux running on top of it. Xenolinux can not run on bare hardware. -Arun ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It''s fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel
> Is booting a Linux kernel compiled for the Xen ARCH possible with > LOADLIN from DOS?Possibly, though not totally straightforwardly. Xen expects to be loaded by a "multiboot" standard compliant boot loader, of which the only common one is Grub. It relies on multiboot''s module feature to enable a domain 0 kernel image (and potentially an initrd) to be loaded into memory by the boot loader. You''ll need to use Tim Deegan''s "mbootpack" which takes a xen image and linux kernel and packages them up into something that looks like a single bzImage: http://www.tjd.phlegethon.org/software/ Please let us know how you get on. Ian> The docs say I need GRUB; and I''m only asking because, for a > mysterious reason, LILO, GRUB, and the NetBSD bootloader just don''t > see my hard disk and cannot boot it. However, the FreeBSD, DOS, > Windows NT, QNX and Plan9 bootloaders work fine, even if the partition > I boot from is over the 1024th cylinder, etc. So I guess my best bet I > to try to load a XenoLinux from DOS with LOADLIN... > > And why the GRUB requirement? > Anyway, thanks :) > > -- > /Varga P閠er/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues > Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. > It''s fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel-=- MIME -=- Hi! Is booting a Linux kernel compiled for the Xen ARCH possible with LOADLIN from DOS? The docs say I need GRUB; and I''m only asking because, for a mysterious reason, LILO, GRUB, and the NetBSD bootloader just don''t see my hard disk and cannot boot it. However, the FreeBSD, DOS, Windows NT, QNX and Plan9 bootloaders work fine, even if the partition I boot from is over the 1024th cylinder, etc. So I guess my best bet I to try to load a XenoLinux from DOS with LOADLIN... And why the GRUB requirement? Anyway, thanks :) --=20 /Varga P=E9ter/ ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It''s fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It''s fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel
>> Hi! >> >> Is booting a Linux kernel compiled for the Xen ARCH possible with >> LOADLIN from DOS? > > You probably want to ask if it''s possible to boot Xen using a different > bootloader and then have a copy of xenolinux running on top of it. > > Xenolinux can not run on bare hardware.you could try ''mbootpack''. it rools multiboot stuff of xen into one package. http://www.tjd.phlegethon.org/software/ as to will it work with loadlin? dunno. ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It''s fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel
On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 21:54:24 +0000, Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:> You''ll need to use Tim Deegan''s "mbootpack" which takes a xen > image and linux kernel and packages them up into something that > looks like a single bzImage: > http://www.tjd.phlegethon.org/software/ > > Please let us know how you get on. > > IanWell, thanks for the advice. I didn''t have luck. I used theese steps: # gunzip ./xen.gz # mbootpack -c ''dom0_mem=131072 noreboot'' -m ''./vmlinuz-xen0 root=/dev/hda3 ro'' ./xen This created the bzImage, no errors. Copied it to C:, and then from DOS: C:\> loadlin bzImage This loads something and then reboots very fast. With ''noreboot'' too. Next thing to try is a GRUB floppy :) -- /Varga Péter/ ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It''s fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel