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lvm root partition on Debian
Thanks to those who answered my last post about booting xen from an lvm
root partition. Well after much reading and messing about I got a good
idea of how to setup xen under debian using lvm as the root partition.

So here goes:

1 download the xen src distribution.
2 reconfigure the domain 0 to include:
* devfs
* cramfs
* device mapper support -- Note this MUST be a module.
3 make install (from the xen directory)
4 run mkinitrd /boot/initrd.xen-2.06 2.6.11.10-xen0 -- obviously change
the versions as needed)
5 setup grub as per the user manual.

devfs and cramfs are required by debian's mkinitd script and the device
mapper must be a module as mkinitrd checks the modules directory to see
if it has module support.

Hope this helps.

rgh

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