Re: [LinuxBIOS] booting Xen3 via FILO?

[Lu, Yinghai]

You need to use kexec to boot xen, ecause you need to Multiboot support.

So LinuxBIOS+Tiny kernel (with kexec enabld) + initrd ( with
kexec_tools)
To boot xen3

./kexec -l xen.gz --command-line="dom0_mem=1G com1=115200,8n1 cdb=com1"
--module="vmlinuz-2.6.16-xen root=/dev/hda3 console=ttyS0,115200,8n1
selinux=0 apic resume=/dev/hda5  splash=silent showopts"
--module="initrd-2.6.16-xen"

./kexec -e

YH

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Ward Vandewege
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 1:59 PM
To: Stefan Reinauer
Cc: [e-mail]
Subject: [LinuxBIOS] booting Xen3 via FILO?

Hi Stefan and list,

Is there special magic necessary to boot a Xen dom0 from FILO (0.5)?
I've not
tried myself (I will tomorrow!) but my colleague says that when he tries
to
boot Xen 3 via the xen-3.gz image (with Grub support enabled in FILO),
he
just gets 'unsupported format'.

Is that a known problem? I only found this 2 year old thread via Google
that
talks about Xen2, and predates Filo's Grub support I believe:

http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2004-11/msg00374.html

Thanks,
Ward.