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Re: [Xen-devel] XEN CD --> USB stick



> As you probably know, XEN does not yet support USB. Although, with a
> new BIOS I am able to boot the XEN cd from my usb stick using the same
> image - a pure cp -Ra xencd/* /mnt/usb/.

It does support USB - you need to select it in your kernel config, as for 
vanilla Linux.

Cheers,
Mark

> Now, since I cannot mount a usb stick to the /dev/sda* it becomes more
> complicated to start other example domains as available on the CD
> (there is no /boot/<kernel>).
>
> Reverse engineering the image by taking the user space ram disk, unzip
> it and mount it through a loopback device gives me access to the
> filesystem which I can modify. However, the disk is too small so I
> need to use 'dd if=/dev/zero of=...' to make another image which I
> copy the entire existing FS to, compress it and then try to boot from
> it.
>
> This does not work - kernel panic. Could someone please get me some
> instruction on how this work?
>
> Thanks in advance
> - Eivind
>
>
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