Hello all, Does anyone of you have some experience with booting XEN of a usb stick? I have been able to boot Linux from it, but never attempted booting XEN of it. With a 512Mb USB stick you should at least be able to boot a minimal version of LFS and DSL from it. I googled for a entry in the dev-list without any luck. Just thought that I''d run the idea by you guys before I spent much time tinkering around with it. Best regards, NeZz ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel
> Does anyone of you have some experience with booting XEN of a usb > stick? I have been able to boot Linux from it, but never attempted > booting XEN of it. With a 512Mb USB stick you should at least be able > to boot a minimal version of LFS and DSL from it.If Xen / XenLinux will boot on your system then they should be able to boot from a pendrive. You''ll have to set the relevant USB options in dom0''s config before compiling it. We''d be pleased to see this working. A while ago we proposed a PC architecture which used Xen (or something similar) as a next generation BIOS replacement - part of that vision is to have Xen / dom0 (safe hardware interface / next gen bios controller in our plan) boot off flash. Cheers, Mark> I googled for a entry in the dev-list without any luck. Just thought > that I''d run the idea by you guys before I spent much time tinkering > around with it. > > Best regards, > NeZz > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Mark Williamson wrote:> We''d be pleased to see this working. A while ago we proposed a PC > architecture which used Xen (or something similar) as a next generation BIOS > replacement - part of that vision is to have Xen / dom0 (safe hardware > interface / next gen bios controller in our plan) boot off flash.do you have more details on this proposal ? shouldn''t be too difficult to do: LinuxBIOS -> Linux Kernel -> Kexec -> Xen + Dom0 (in fact I have something more similar on my setup exept that the kexec gets xen and xenolinux over network instead of from CF)). ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel
Eivind wrote:> Hello all, > > Does anyone of you have some experience with booting XEN of a usb > stick? I have been able to boot Linux from it, but never attempted > booting XEN of it. With a 512Mb USB stick you should at least be able > to boot a minimal version of LFS and DSL from it.suggestion, start with Devil Linux. Change the CD-ROM creation process to create a CompactFlash image. This image would be loaded onto flash (duh) and stuck in a CompactFlash to IDE adapter. Then, using the built-in capabilities of devil Linux to load up its configuration off of usb flash sticks. then xenify it -- http://www.salon.com/books/review/2004/12/18/heloise/index.html The basis of Abelard''s philosophy, which he taught to Heloise, was that logic had to be applied to religion in order to arrive at the truth. ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel
Eivind <gentoo.warrior <at> gmail.com> writes:> > Hello all, > > Does anyone of you have some experience with booting XEN of a usb > stick? I have been able to boot Linux from it, but never attempted > booting XEN of it. With a 512Mb USB stick you should at least be able > to boot a minimal version of LFS and DSL from it. > > I googled for a entry in the dev-list without any luck. Just thought > that I''d run the idea by you guys before I spent much time tinkering > around with it. >I''ve built a car pc for a friend... he tried booting off a USB stick (1.0) ... took awhile. The other guy had the right idea with the CF/IDE. Also, we used pebble linux. Xen-on-a-usb-stick would be a neat idea... let me know how it goes. ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel
It might be possible to adapt the xencd demo that Jared produced using the method describled here: http://www.northern.ca/forums/index.php?t=msg&th=114 This method is basically using FreeDOS -> LoadLin -> FeatherLinux ... if you can start Xen from Loadlin you should have no probs switching in XenCD for Feather. Maybe if I get a chance tomorrow, I''ll have a go at it. -- Northern.CA ===-- http://www.northern.ca/ Canada''s Search Engine ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel
Fred Richards wrote:> I''ve built a car pc for a friend... he tried booting off a USB stick (1.0) ... > took awhile. The other guy had the right idea with the CF/IDE.probably more scar tissue than right idea. Here''s a source of those adapters. http://mach5products.com/PRODCF/CFproducts.htm this kind of adapter is probably found all over the world in little shops everywhere. I''ve dealt with these people (Mach 5 products) before and have been happy with them. The customer of mine has also purchased a series of their adapters as we are converting all of customer''s firewalls (IP cop) to flash based systems. ---eric -- http://www.salon.com/books/review/2004/12/18/heloise/index.html The basis of Abelard''s philosophy, which he taught to Heloise, was that logic had to be applied to religion in order to arrive at the truth. ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel
Hello All, Thank you all for your help, and I got it working by using the previously released XenCD. Dumping the entire content of the CD onto the usb stick and then install grub on it - works perfectly. However, some tweaks was necessary. My FAT16 (0x06) FS does not support filenames longer than 8 characters + the extension. menu.list in /boot/grub (on my usb stick) must be changed appropriately. Second, run grub and execute: - "root (hd1,0)" - this is the MBR of your usb stick (make sure you are not choosing any other HD on your system ;o) - "find /boot/grub/stage1" (make sure you are using the right path - not your host system''s /boot. On my system I must mount /dev/hda1 on /boot. Instead, I created a symlink for /boot/grub to point to my usb device boot/grub/ directory. This last step should give you the options of the HDs in your system. - "setup (hd1,0)" which points to my usb drive. I am sure there is any other way to do this as well. But it works the way I intended it to... Again, Thanks a lot for your help - Eivind On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 20:13:36 -0500, Eric S. Johansson <esj@harvee.org> wrote:> Eivind wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > Does anyone of you have some experience with booting XEN of a usb > > stick? I have been able to boot Linux from it, but never attempted > > booting XEN of it. With a 512Mb USB stick you should at least be able > > to boot a minimal version of LFS and DSL from it. > > suggestion, start with Devil Linux. Change the CD-ROM creation process > to create a CompactFlash image. This image would be loaded onto flash > (duh) and stuck in a CompactFlash to IDE adapter. Then, using the > built-in capabilities of devil Linux to load up its configuration off of > usb flash sticks. > > then xenify it > > -- > http://www.salon.com/books/review/2004/12/18/heloise/index.html > > The basis of Abelard''s philosophy, which he taught to Heloise, was > that logic had to be applied to religion in order to arrive at the > truth. >------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel