Re: [Xen-users] Using pygrub

To:	"Steve Kemp" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:	Re: [Xen-users] Using pygrub
From:	"Henning Sprang" <henning_sprang@xxxxxx>
Date:	Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:55:24 +0100
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On 12/28/06, Steve Kemp <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[...]
  The system boots and the kernel ignores the "init=/bin/sh" argument
 completely.  Looking over the code I see mention of "args" but it
 doesn't look like it is used as I'd expect.  The following fails too:

 args init=/bin/sh

  Is there a simple method of appending kernel arguments using pygrub?


Never used that myself yet, but because I know Fedora uses them when
setting up a vm with virt-install/ virt-manager, I looked at my fedora
test system.
There, when I set init=/bin/sh I am thrown into /bin/sh as wanted.

Not tried on Debian cause there I use only partitions - the standard
tools there don't bother me with layering multiple partioning and
volume management tools but let me use simple partitoins :)

Are you sure you edited the menu.lst *inside* the domU and point the
bootloader correctly to this? Or, maybe you did not uncomment a
kernel= and root= line in the vm config file and this one is used
instead? Do you see a grub boot menu when starting the domain?

Henning

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