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RE: [Xen-users] Installing a domU on NFS

To: "Dominik Klein" <dk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Installing a domU on NFS
From: "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 16:52:19 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Dominik Klein
> Sent: 08 March 2007 15:42
> To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Installing a domU on NFS
> 
> Dominik Klein schrieb:
> >> You probably need those modules in the initrd, because 
> until you have
> >> connection to your NFS volume, you can't really use any of 
> it's content,
> >> so you have a "chicken and egg problem" - which is solved by either
> >> compiling them in as built-in's to the kernel, or by using 
> an initrd
> >> that contains the necessary modules to get past the 
> initial boot point. 
> > 
> > ROOT_NFS is compilable as a module, IP_PNP is not. I'll 
> give it a try 
> > and report here.
> 
> Well this seems wrong information. Both is not compilable as 
> a module in 
> my kernel version 2.6.18

So, you're saying that the ROOT_NFS option doesn't produce a module, nor
does IP_PNP?

In that case, you shouldn't need to modify your initrd.
> 
> Besides, from what I understood, the kernel that is started 
> initially is 
> the one from /boot in dom0 - isnt it?

Yes, that's correct. [Or, rather, that's ONE place you could take it
from, it all depends on your configuration file]. But you previously
posted the configuration file, and that points to /boot/vmlinuz-xen, so
that's the kernel used. 

--
Mats
> 
> Any more ideas?
> 
> Regards
> Dominik
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