#10 elilo applies root= to vmcode instead of kernel

[Aron Griffis]

When elilo processes elilo.conf, it prepends the standalone root= stanza to the front of the options. It's done this way so that the append= line will override if it contains an alternative root=. For example:

image=vmlinuz-2.6.18-36.el5xen
vmm=xen.gz-2.6.18-36.el5
label=linux
initrd=initrd-2.6.18-36.el5xen.img
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root=/dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00
append="-- xencons=xvc"

The hypervisor will be called with the following cmdline:
root=/dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00 -- xencons=xvc

The problem here is that the root= part should be given to the kernel, not the hypervisor, so it should be moved to the right of --, i.e.
-- root=/dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00 xencons=xvc

I've supplied a patch to fix this, see http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1769456&group_id=91879&atid=598711

This is especially important as distributions are moving to support xen on ia64.

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[Aron Griffis]

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re-opening. AFAIK this problem has not been fixed