Please ignore my silly question. I just need to partition
the disk differently when I (re)install RHEL4.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins)
> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 8:05 AM
> To: 'Akio Takebe'; xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] [FYI] Recipe of build and boot
> of Xen/IA64
>
> Hi Akio --
>
> How did you build your (dom0) RHEL4 root disk? I see you are
> booting using /dev/sda2 as root. The standard
> RHEL4 build process creates an LVM disk as root and the process
> you describe won't work with an LVM root disk.
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xen-ia64-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:xen-ia64-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> > Of Akio Takebe
> > Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 4:13 AM
> > To: xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [Xen-ia64-devel] [FYI] Recipe of build and boot of Xen/IA64
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > We can boot RHEL4 domU without initrd.
> > I have written the recipe.
> > (Thank you for many advice, everyone :-))
> >
> > My enviroment is;
> > Machine : Tiger4
> > Dom0 OS : RHEL4 U2
> > DomU OS : RHEL4 U2
> > changeset: 8241:0255f48b757f
> >
> > ----------------------------
> > Build xen
> > 1. Download source
> > # hg clone http://xenbits.xensource.com/ext/xen-ia64-unstable.hg
> >
> > 2. # make world -j4
> >
> > 3. make menuconfig in Dom0
> > # cd linux-2.6.12-xen0
> > # make menuconfig
> > CONFIG_IA64_DIG=y
> > # cd ..
> >
> > 4. make menuconfig in DomU
> > # cd linux-2.6.12-xenU
> > # make menuconfig
> > CONFIG_IA64_DIG=y
> > # CONFIG_EFI_RTC is not set
> > # cd ..
> >
> > 5. # make kernels -j4
> >
> > 6. # make uninstall
> >
> > 7. # make install-tools
> >
> > 8. copy kernels and xen
> > # cp xen/xen.gz /boot/efi/efi/xen/
> > # cp linux-2.6.12-xen0/vmlinux.gz
> > /boot/efi/efi/xen/vmlinuz-2.6.12-xen0
> > # cp linux-2.6.12-xenU/vmlinux.gz /boot/vmlinux-2.6.12-xenU
> >
> > 9. make initrd for Dom0
> > # cd linux-2.6.12-xen0/
> > # make modules_install
> > # mkinitrd -f /boot/efi/efi/xen/initrd-2.6.12-xen0.img
> > 2.6.12.6-xen0 --builtin mptbase --builtin mptscsih
> > # cd ..
> >
> > ---------------------------------
> > Make OSimg for DomU
> > 1. make file
> > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/rhel4.img bs=1M count=4096
> > # mke2fs -F -j /root/rhel4.img
> > # mount -o loop /root/rhel4.img /mnt
> > # cp -ax /{dev,var,etc,usr,bin,sbin,lib} /mnt
> > # mkdir /mnt/{root,proc,sys,home,tmp}
> >
> > 2. modify DomU's fstab
> > # vi /mnt/etc/fstab
> > /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
> > none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
> > none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> > none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
> >
> > 3. modify inittab (runlevel and tty)
> > # vi /mnt/etc/inittab
> > id:3:initdefault:
> > # Run gettys in standard runlevels
> > 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty0
> > #1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
> > #2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
> > #3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
> > #4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
> > #5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
> > #6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6
> >
> > 4. add tty0 into /etc/securetty
> > # vi /mnt/etc/securetty (add tty0)
> >
> > 5. umount
> > # umount /mnt
> >
> > -------------------------------------
> > Boot Xen
> > 1. replace elilo
> > download from the below
> > http://elilo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/blosxom
> >
> > 2. modify elilo.conf
> > prompt
> > timeout=20
> > default=xen
> > relocatable
> >
> > image=vmlinuz-2.6.12-xen0
> > label=xen
> > vmm=xen-.gz
> > initrd=initrd-2.6.12-xen0.img
> > read-only
> > append="com2=115200,8n1 console=com2 sched=bvt
> > tbuf_size=128 -- nomca nosmp console=tty0
> > console=ttyS1,115200,8n1 rhgb root=/dev/sda2"
> > image=vmlinuz-2.6.9-22.EL
> > label=linux
> > initrd=initrd-2.6.9-22.EL.img
> > read-only
> > append="rhgb root=/dev/sda2"
> > 3. make config of DomU
> > # vi /etc/xen/rhel4
> > kernel = "/boot/vmlinux-2.6.12-xenU"
> > memory = 384
> > name = "rhel4"
> > nics=0
> > disk = [ 'file:/root/rhel4.img,hda1,w' ]
> > root = "/dev/hda1 ro"
> > extra = "3"
> >
> > 4. After boot xen and dom0, start xend
> > # /etc/init.d/xend start
> > ( In the debugging case, # XEND_DEBUG=1 xend trace_start )
> >
> > 5. start domU
> > # xm create -c rhel4
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Akio Takebe
> >
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