Actually I think I'm on to something. It looks like the initrd.img is compressed. After the boot fails, if I uncompress the initrd, then kexec works!
Boot 0.7.0 generic embedded image as Xen guest, after it fails, do the following: cd /mnt/tmp/ mv initrd.img intitrd.img.gz gunzip initrd.img.gz kexec -l --command-line="root=/dev/ram0 rw init=/runnix rootdelay=10" --initrd=initrd.img bzImage kexec -e Boots! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darrick Hartman" <dhart...@djhsolutions.com> To: "AstLinux Users Mailing List" <astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 8:33:53 PM Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] running AstLinux under Xen None of the current released images will boot from an external usb drive. You can boot a CDROM iso We're also aware that the 'astinstall' function is not working from the ISO. You can create a unionfs storage partition, properly labeled, and it will be detected by the bootable iso image. We have these as items on the list, but right now it's a long list. Darrick On 03/23/2010 10:09 PM, Jay D. Allen wrote: > Well the kernel can load, and will boot via kexec. Its the initrd thats not > loading. > > Jay Allen > F2 Inc > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Thczv F. Thczv"<thczv.th...@gmail.com> > To: "AstLinux Users Mailing List"<astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 7:16:22 PM > Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] running AstLinux under Xen > > Did you learn anything about this problem? I am trying to boot 0.7.0 > from a flash drive on a fairly standard computer (a Dell X1 laptop). > But it fails with this same error. > > Any idea why it does this? > > Dave > > > On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Jay D. Allen<j...@f2it.com> wrote: >> Its the kexec that's failing. I choose a very generic Xen environment and >> then try and load the 0.7.0 stock or beta. Same issue. Boots, copies >> kernel and initrd, but kexec fails with "Invalid memory ..." >> >> Jay >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Darrick Hartman"<dhart...@djhsolutions.com> >> To: "AstLinux Users Mailing List"<astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net> >> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 10:45:05 AM >> Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] running AstLinux under Xen >> >> On 03/14/2010 03:11 AM, Jay D. Allen wrote: >>> Hi there, >>> >>> Does anyone currently run AstLinux under Xen? I've tried it couple of >>> ways, but it fails at the kexec stage with "Invalid memory..." Sound >>> familiar to you? >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Jay >> >> Jay, >> >> I've successfully used VirtualBox and VMware, but have not tried Xen. >> Sorry I couldn't be of more help. If you do figure out how to do this, >> we would accept a howto on the wiki page. >> >> Darrick >> -- >> Darrick Hartman >> DJH Solutions, LLC >> http://www.djhsolutions.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to > pay...@krisk.org. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. 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