On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 09:19:29AM -0500, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > On Sun, 2006-09-17 at 02:40 -0400, Amos Waterland wrote: > > I recently got a few hours on a Maple development board. I wanted to > > boot with an nfsroot, but I didn't want to risk changing the bootargs > > saved in the PIBS firmware. This patch lets Xen choose to override the > > bootargs supplied by the firmware if the user specifies `bootargs=builtin'. > > We already have too many ways of passing boot parameters. I'll be taking > a look at GRUB in the near future, so hopefully most of them will become > obsolete.
This is not a very good response. Perhaps I did not properly explain what the problem is. The patch solves a real problem that using GRUB does not. I need to boot Xen on a large number of machines (50 or more), and whenever you reach that scale you find it necessary to reduce the state of each actor in the system. I want to reduce the state saved on each individual machine. I.e, if the last person who happened to work on a particular blade happened to put a boot argument in the firmware that breaks me, I want to be able to override him. I need to boot 50 or more machines at once and I do not control the machines, I only get access to them periodically. Please explain how using GRUB is going to help. Keep in mind that I might not be able to force the machine owners to install GRUB, and many of the machines don't even have a hard drive. _______________________________________________ Xen-ppc-devel mailing list Xen-ppc-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-ppc-devel
