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Re: [Xen-devel] debian

To: James Harper <JamesH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] debian
From: Brian Wolfe <brianw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 10:27:57 -0600
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If you use the xenlinuxbuilder it gets everything correct except that it
doesn't do debs just yet. ;-P

I think you need to use the subarch parameter to get the xen specific
subarch of i386.

On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 16:41 +1100, James Harper wrote:
> I just tried building a debian xen0 kernel with the standard make-kpkg
> tools and the packages from www.terrabox.com, and while it gave me a
> resulting package, I noted the following:
>
> . resulting package name is kernel-xen0-2.6.9_1_i386.deb where I would
> have expected kernel-image-2.6.9…
>
> . no initrd generated on install even though I requested one on the
> make-kpkg commandline
>
> . enabling pnp bios support caused a failed compile. Probably don’t
> want this anyway though as I understand there is no way to access pnp
> bios info from xen.
>
>
>
> Is this normal?
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> James
>
>
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>
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