Xen and LILO

This section only applies to the real dinosaurs out there, but we sympathize. In keeping with the feeling that you have vanished into the mysterious past, we will present this example using Xen 3.0.

If you're dead set on using LILO, rather than GRUB, you will be pleased to learn that it is possible. Although it's generally thought that LILO's lack of an equivalent to GRUB's module directive makes it impossible for it to boot Xen, it's possible to get around that by combining the hypervisor, dom0 kernel, and initrd into one file using mbootpack.

Consider the following entry in grub.conf:

title slack-xen
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /boot/xen.gz
        module /vmlinuz-2.6-xen ro root=/dev/hda1 ro
        module /initrd-2.6.18-xen.gz

It loads the hypervisor,

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