-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/15/12 18:09, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 4:14 PM, David Benfell > <benfell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> I'd have to look into using a not-so-custom kernel (presumably >> from the Arch package). Ten years ago, I used to build kernels >> routinely. But it's not trivial anymore. > > nah none of that :-) i detest compiling things. > Whew! I mean it used to be fun. And I don't mind much when it's the ./configure-make-make install sequence. But kernel building never was quite that simple and I'd have to say it's become a lot more complicated now. > i run the standard Arch kernel, same as any other machine -- you > just have to configure your instance to use pv-grub. > > ... basically, you just need to make a grub-legacy menu.lst file, > put it in the normal place on an ext3 partition, and go from there. > no real work in the end. I went to the Arch Wiki (or, more precisely, my copy of it, since the original one often fails to answer), went to the Linode wiki (which doesn't talk about Arch Linux), and came up with the following (comments elided) /boot/grub/menu.1st: timeout 5 default 0 color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue title Arch Linux root (hd0) kernel /vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/xvda ro initrd /initramfs-linux.img groot=(hd0) But I missed something because when I went to boot, it still thought it was supposed to boot from (hd0,0). > > the arch kernel has all the necessary CONFIG_* bits to run > unmodified in the Linode XEN environment. > - -- David Benfell benfell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQA531AAoJELT202JKF+xp3e8P/36OaNv+Aa/8pEpuwfPwZ1rY sTjhQaIJM2RF50LMfOLZUqnIz9bae2simjfv2MUi6OgmeDjvDeSKMuDY//HXQlpE mtWlgoQyYFi0SJNnUS/t36wVT5SqKZUDEIfgxqRHy6stbNJd7aaJswkupZitpiT7 z3isrUe3pitGAmLvicpbqmbx2NIDJA6ZBOECdiOQ6FVsvrWrox0bt1p38u5267J0 9hv1AdovkJ74JkmYXZILQHSUNsToW5izzVqXsQXBCM+3OEMuSYfDgb40g/jNT0yV 6oZYnkSIEyKabLrMupEbIYiLFmm1nJ0sMo239C8d2BkyJLdJT1oecc548wvN3Yed K13uKbQGVzjQdoxXWbecBvzSgZAjyFTZ3NZqvF0Rw8ICryc1zAjBkWmIvb/7B9C/ pKnI6BcQaZAZ/SJWaguFiY4xeXgKBx+TUtnshgQTa9UegyYedcp21Uyw/pGrurTF W764dWxqTw/zu9HsBnJ1UEiI03ypaaVfRmSwY+7qZWBpbOD/Orp426/gxq7+zaGs y6X4Pny9fsOw1rmCp80yRvk9MkZSJ09rgHusO6LInCZDki2yyRPBEXYH751hCdF9 3s9COuTf2O8/cQraMX/cEGBWf66ZZkeHc738v26brcuhhQYJmg/Iw+euGvwog1mT TJaLJA83orUL0XRaSZtf =zQgR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
