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



Alex Williamson wrote:  [Tue Aug 22 2006, 10:31:55AM EDT]
>    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" 
> 
> 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,

If you're going to go that far, why not go the rest of the way and
switch to grub.conf syntax entirely.  It makes distro support easier
to implement.

Aron

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