On Fri, 13 Feb 2015, Steven Haigh wrote: > Hi Pat & all, > > With my toying with installing SL7 as a Xen guest, I've found an issue > that I'd like to experiment with... > > Pat: Can you please tell me or point me to how you create the vmlinux / > initrd for the pxeboot images? > > I'm pretty sure that I have to turn on the following options: > CONFIG_XEN_FBDEV_FRONTEND=y > CONFIG_XEN_KBDDEV_FRONTEND=y > > As such, I'd like to try building the same vmlinuz / initrd with both > those two options enabled. > > This should allow a proper unattended install of SL7 as a Xen guest. The > pain in the backside is that they also have to be enabled in the SL7 > kernel package that needs to be installed - but I have other ways around > that.... (i think). > > -- > Steven Haigh > > Email: [log in to unmask] > Web: http://www.crc.id.au > Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 > > The compose process uses pungi which calls lorax. Lorax is part of EL/SL 7 . You can run lorax standalone if needed. Lorax needs a "tree" to build against. Pungi can provide that tree or you could just use a existing SL tree. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # lorax -p $PRODUCT -v $VERSION -r $COMPOSE -s REPOSITORY OUTPUTDIR lorax -p SL -v 7.0 -r BETA -s <sl tree loc> /srv/compose/$PRODUCT/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Connie J. Sieh Computing Services Specialist III Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory 630 840 8531 office http://www.fnal.gov [log in to unmask]