[Fedora-xen] FW: [IA64]We have successfully booted dom0/domU/domVTI (xen/ia64) on FC5

[Jeremy Katz]

On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 15:13 -0400, Aron Griffis wrote:
> Zhang, Xiantao wrote:  [Fri May 26 2006, 09:38:51AM EDT]
> > >> 	- The configuration files for dom0/domU seems a big difference
> > >> 	compared to xen-ia64-unstable.hg. (Why?) Currently the ext3 is
> > >> 	compiled as module, however initrd doesn't work for domU even
> > >> 	when we add "ramdisk=" in config file. So we change ext3 to be
> > >> 	kernel built-in, and then domU can boot up immediately.
> > > 
> > > Ok, I'll fix that in the rpm.
> > 
> > OK.
> 
> I added ext3 as 'y' instead of module, this is now in the
> fedora-kernel-ia64 repo.

Things are configured as they are so that we don't have configuration
skew between Xen and non-Xen kernels as that just leads to confusion and
tool problems down the road.  What's the problem with initrds and ia64
xen?

Jeremy