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RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] [Patch] booting Guest domains w/o initrd on RHEL4

To: "Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins)" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxx>, xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] [Patch] booting Guest domains w/o initrd on RHEL4
From: Akio Takebe <takebe_akio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 11:01:00 +0900
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Hi Dan,

>This is the same point I got to when I tried this two weeks
>ago.  I think the problem is that just like dom0 requires
>an initrd to boot RHEL4, domU also requires an initrd to
>boot a RHEL4 image.  I don't think initrd for domU is
>implemented yet.
>
I also think so.
My patch is for booting DomU without initrd.

In the case of RHEL4 DomU, 
I think it is neccessary for booting DomU to use initrd. 
I will make a part implement of xen and libxc for using initrd.

Best Regards,

Akio Takebe


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