Comments on: That’s a rack! http://blog.xcski.com/2006/10/31/thats-a-rack Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:22:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Paul Tomblin http://blog.xcski.com/2006/10/31/thats-a-rack#comment-12402 Paul Tomblin Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:43:05 +0000 http://blog.xcski.com/2006/10/31/thats-a-rack#comment-12402 Ok, to answer my own answer, it appears that Debian's mkinitrd is much simpler - you load the modules you want, then you type "mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd-xen.img 2.6.18-xen" and it makes the ramdisk for you. I loaded the ramdisk for the domUs, and they didn't give that warning about mounting ext3 as ext2 any more. Ok, to answer my own answer, it appears that Debian’s mkinitrd is much simpler - you load the modules you want, then you type “mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd-xen.img 2.6.18-xen” and it makes the ramdisk for you. I loaded the ramdisk for the domUs, and they didn’t give that warning about mounting ext3 as ext2 any more.

]]> By: Paul Tomblin http://blog.xcski.com/2006/10/31/thats-a-rack#comment-12375 Paul Tomblin Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:07:25 +0000 http://blog.xcski.com/2006/10/31/thats-a-rack#comment-12375 Frank, the problem is that all the instructions I've found for doing a "mkinitrd" say to use the "-v -f" options, and the version of mkinitrd on Debian Sarge doesn't take those options. Frank, the problem is that all the instructions I’ve found for doing a “mkinitrd” say to use the “-v -f” options, and the version of mkinitrd on Debian Sarge doesn’t take those options.

]]> By: Frank Ch. Eigler http://blog.xcski.com/2006/10/31/thats-a-rack#comment-12364 Frank Ch. Eigler Tue, 31 Oct 2006 03:14:08 +0000 http://blog.xcski.com/2006/10/31/thats-a-rack#comment-12364 xen kernels can load initrd images roughly the same way normal ones do, and it can contain ext3.ko. See the "ramdisk" attribute in your xen config file. xen kernels can load initrd images roughly the same way
normal ones do, and it can contain ext3.ko.
See the “ramdisk” attribute in your xen config file.

]]> By: Barry Price http://blog.xcski.com/2006/10/31/thats-a-rack#comment-12363 Barry Price Tue, 31 Oct 2006 03:10:35 +0000 http://blog.xcski.com/2006/10/31/thats-a-rack#comment-12363 Any excuse to say "Nice rack, Paul!" is good by me. No ext3 support is interesting, <acronym title="for some values of">fsvo</acronym> "interesting". Good luck! Any excuse to say “Nice rack, Paul!” is good by me.

No ext3 support is interesting, fsvo “interesting”. Good luck!

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