Yeah, you don't even need a VNFS image in order to boot into xcpu! All you need is the initial busybox provided by perceus and activating the perceus xcpu module "perceus module activate xcpu". This will give you a minimal xcpu node, and you can then add remote filesystems for mounting if necessary. You only really need user files, if at all, since the executables that you run with xrx take the necessary libraries along automagically.
Daniel On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Kevin Tegtmeier <[email protected]> wrote: > How much RAM do you have? Typically the way to go in this type of situation > is to boot off a minimal boot image, retrieve 2nd stage kernel and minimal > root file system and NFS mount the rest (less frequently used libraries, man > pages, etc). The hybridization process should be documented on the Perceus > website. > > --Kevin > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Roger Mason <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> Following the thread earlier this week I tried perceus but without >> success (vnfs images too big for my systems limited RAM). So, back to >> oneSIS. >> >> With some modifications to the oneSIS Makefile I can run >> >> make xcpu-tarball >> make ramfs-tarball >> make install >> ./mk-xcpu-oneSIS -f initrd-2.6.26-gentoo-r3.img 2.6.26-gentoo-r3 -nn -rr >> >> Having moved the initrd to the right place my test node stops booting >> with: >> >> /etc/init.d/rcS/: line 2: xcpufs: not found >> >> If anyone can offer advice it will be received gratefully. >> >> Thanks, >> Roger > >
