[Fedora-livecd-list] Kadischi - Xen - patch

[Chitlesh GOORAH]

On 3/13/06, J. Hartline <jasperhartline at adelphia.net> wrote:
> Hi.
> I've got Xen kernels booting from our LiveCD medias, and I'll attach the
> patch below.

Should I document it in the Kadischi/Development ?

> There are a few things I'd like to go over though, if anyone has any
> opinions.
>
> The main concerns I have are:
> 1) The dom0_mem= allocated values.
> 2) The ramdisk_size= values specified at 10000
> 3) The naming convention for the labels.
>
> Chitlesh stated the other day he recieved "no space left on device" errors
> and I would assume that is because of the tiny ramidsk_size allocated.
> Chitlesh, what was the memory specs in the machine you were using when
> that happenned?

512 Mb RAM

As you said it was because of the tiny ramdisk_size allocated, my
problem was solved when I removed ramdisk_size=10000 from
install-boot.sh

I had this issue because I was using a splash.lss (the one from FC5T3 DVD)

> Also, with the dom0_mem= values, 65536 (64MB) is surely too small.
> However, we can't expect anyone running a LiveCD to have gigabytes of
> RAM tucked into thier
> machines. Likewise you can't expect to run Xen for any real purpose
> without enough RAM either.
> If we could get some opinions on this, that would be great.
>
> As it stands, the patch works great for non-Xen and Xen kernels and will
> decide what to
> do considering what kernel was in fact installed. Perhaps a few others
> can test this and
> send some feedback that would be good.
>
> Thanks.
> J. Hartline

Ill test it.

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