Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] kernel and xen parameters

[Tristan Gingold <Tristan.Gingold@xxxxxxxx>]

Le Mardi 22 AoÃt 2006 16:31, Alex Williamson a Ãcrit :
> On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 16:26 +0200, Tristan Gingold wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > during a fresh installation I had problem with root= elilo option.  It
> > appear elilo prepend root= and read-only to the command line.  Because of
> > '--', they are eaten by xen and not passed to the kernel.  This is not
> > the expected behaviour.
> >
> > How could this be fixed ?
> > I propose to create a new elilo option, vmm-param="xxx"
> > We could later get rid of the '--', which is IMHO a good thing.
> >
> > Any better ideas ?
>
>    What about adopting something more like what grub does and simply
> provide vmm option on the vmm= line after the image file?  Something
> like:
>
> image=xenlinuz
>         label=xen
>         vmm=xen.gz dom0_mem=2048M
>         read-only
>         append="root=/dev/sda2"
Well, this is not in the elilo spirit, but we could change the spirit too :-)
Also we have to change the bootparam interface too (in any case).

> It would be nice to even go a step further and do the same with kernel
> parameters, removing the append line.  I think this would all have to be
> done while maintaining backwards compatibility for the current method
> though.  Thanks,
Why not.

Tristan.

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