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### Configuring booting	### Configuring booting

Read boot.cfg(8) carefully. Add lines to /boot.cfg to boot Xen:	Read boot.cfg(8) carefully. Add lines to /boot.cfg to boot Xen,
	adjusting for your root filesystem:

[[!template id=filecontent name="/boot.cfg" text="""	[[!template id=filecontent name="/boot.cfg" text="""
menu=Xen:load /netbsd-XEN3_DOM0.gz console=pc;multiboot /xen.gz dom0_mem=512M	menu=Xen:load /netbsd-XEN3_DOM0.gz root=wd0a console=pc;multiboot /xen.gz dom0_mem=512M
menu=Xen single user:load /netbsd-XEN3_DOM0.gz console=pc -s;multiboot /xen.gz dom0_mem=512M	menu=Xen single user:load /netbsd-XEN3_DOM0.gz root=wd0a console=pc -s;multiboot /xen.gz dom0_mem=512M
"""]]	"""]]

This specifies that the dom0 should have 512MB of ram, leaving the rest	This specifies that the dom0 should have 512MB of ram, leaving the rest
Line 179 fixing problems is the standard prudent	Line 180 fixing problems is the standard prudent
\todo Explain why rndseed is not set with Xen as part of the dom0	\todo Explain why rndseed is not set with Xen as part of the dom0
subconfiguration.	subconfiguration.

	Note that you are likely to have to set root= because the boot device
	from /boot is not passed via Xen to the dom0 kernel. With one disk,
	it will work, but e.g. plugging in USB disk to a machine with root on
	wd0a causes boot to fail.

Beware that userconf statements must be attached to the dom0 load, and	Beware that userconf statements must be attached to the dom0 load, and
may not be at top-level, because then they would try to configure the	may not be at top-level, because then they would try to configure the
hypervisor, if there is a way to pass them via multiboot . It appears	hypervisor, if there is a way to pass them via multiboot . It appears

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