[syslinux] booting Xen hypervisor

[Peter Schobel]

Wow, that was an easy fix.

Much appreciated,

Peter Schobel 
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On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 12:36 +0000, Tim Deegan wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> > label xen
> >  kernel pxelinux/com32/modules/mboot.c32
> >  append boot/xen.gz nosmp noacpi --- boot/res-1-kernel
> > ramdisk_size=131072 ramdisk_blocksize=1024 console=ttyS0 apm=off id=1
> > qrm=10.0.1.1 ip=10.0.0.99:10.0.1.1:10.0.0.1:255.0.0.0
> > BOOTIF=00:0d:60:d5:d6:3b --- boot/res-1-initrd.img
> >  ipappend 3
> 
> The IPAPPEND flag won't work with Xen; it will just add things to the
> end of the mboot.c32 command line, which will be translated into
> command-line arguments to the initrd image (which should be ignored by
> Xen).  It clashes with the explicit IP information you're supplying anyway.
> 
> If you're using a serial line, you need to tell Xen where its console
> is, e.g. for a serial console add "com1=115200,8n1 console=com1" after
> "boot/xen.gz".  To explicitly request the vga console, use "console=tty".
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tim.
> 
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