On 14/02/2015 1:12 AM, Connie Sieh wrote: > 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). > > 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/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks Connie, I'm a little confused as the documentation I can find is *very* sparce and not exactly informative on how the whole process works... Is there a way to just rebuild the kernel without having to rebuilt the entire anaconda process? Or on another chain of thought, I have a working kernel that I use for EL7 as a fully functioning Xen DomU - I'm wondering what I would add to the initrd to then launch the anaconda installer.... Could this be a shorter path? -- Steven Haigh Email: [log in to unmask] Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897