Hello Xen-users,
I am trying to load two executables into a single VM
at different addresses. The goal is to pass control
to the first executable, which will treat the second
executable as data.
Can PV-Grub be used to accomplish this? I suspect
ordinary Grub should be able to do this, outside of Xen,
with a configuration like this:
menu.lst:
title a multiboot test
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/first-exec.elf
module /boot/second-exec.elf
and I have successfully booted into an ordinary
multiboot-format kernel with this configuration.
However, when I start PV-Grub with the following
configuration:
kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/pv-grub-x86_32.gz"
extra = "(hd0,0)/boot/grub/menu.lst"
memory = 64
name = "GRUB"
vif = [ '''' ]
disk = [ ''file:/home/linuxfilesys,hda1,w'' ]
I see:
root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /boot/first-exec.elf
module /boot/second-exec.elf
Error 20: Multiboot kernel must be loaded before modules
Press any key to continue...
Note that first-exec.elf has both a Xen guest kernel
header and a multiboot kernel header. So, if I remove
the "module ..." line from menu.lst , I can boot
first-exec.elf in a Xen VM, and if I run the Grub
"mbchk" tool on first-exec.elf , it says "All checks
passed.".
But apparently PV-Grub is not convinced that it''s
really a multiboot kernel.
Do you know if what I''m trying to do is possible?
Or am I wasting my time?
There are still more experiments with the structure
of first-exec.elf I can try to ensure that it really
is a multiboot kernel, but it would help to know first that
other people have already accomplished the same thing.
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