On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 21:49 +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> writes: > > > On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 21:12 +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > > > >> Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> writes: > >> > >>> Another option might be to combine gtk/initrd.gz and xen/initrd.gz so > >>> that the overhead is only the kernel udebs and not duplicating all the > >>> other stuff. > >> > >> I probably mentioned this already, but you aren't constrained to a > >> single initrd.gz: you can use several ones separated by commas. > > > > Where can I use several? In a Xen domain config file or in some > > bootloader config or something? Is it actually supported of does it just > > happen to work by some coincidence? > > Unfortunately not in a Xen domain config, AFAIK. But isolinux supports > it, as per syslinux.txt: > > It supports multiple filenames separated by commas. > This is mostly useful for initramfs, which can be composed of > multiple separate cpio or cpio.gz archives. OK, Thanks. > It's actually an overlay, so it may be possible to work around the Xen > limitation by making the Xen initrd the base one and overwriting its > arch dependent parts as needed. Although it probably could be made to work I'm not that keen on making the regular case more complicated/strange (even if supported by the bootloader) in order to support Xen and I suspect nobody else is either. I'd prefer to drop GTK from the Xen images. Ian. -- -- Ian Campbell BOFH excuse #169: broadcast packets on wrong frequency
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