Re: [Xen-devel] Building Xen 4.2.2 w/EFI on Ubuntu Server 12.04.2

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 13.07.13 at 16:59, Kelvin Middleton <kelvin.middleton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi, very new with Xen so am learning as I go.
> 
> Have rebuilt binutils to enable i386pep and "ld -V" confirms as such.
> 
> I can build xen without error but how should I be passing in the EFI_Vendor
> parameter?  I'm currently having to cp the xen-4.2.2.efi from
> /usr/lib64/efi/ into my /boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu dir.
> 
> (Expecting that my EFI_VENDOR parameter should be "EFI/ubuntu".)

Yes. You'd set EFI_VENDOR in root's environment, or pass the value
on the "make install-xen" command line.

> Have created a xen-4.2.2.cfg file in /boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu right next to the
> .efi.  Boot shows its using the .cfg file but I get an error about no Dom0
> Kernel could be found.  I'm struggling to find or maybe understand the
> documentation/posts on this.  My xen-4.2.2.cfg is as follows...
> 
> [global]
> default=xen
> 
> [xen]
> options=console=vga loglvl=all noreboot
> kernel=vmlinuz-3.5.0-36-generic ignore_loglevel
> ramdisk=initrd-3.5.0-36-generic
> 
> I've cp the kernel and ramdisk files into the same location as the
> .efi.  Please can someone point me at the right words to
> research/advise where I'm going wrong.  Any help apprecaited.

Are you sure about this being in the right place? What exact error
message are you getting?

Jan


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