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<p>Ttennebb: /* initrd and grub */ new section</p> <hr /> <div>== initrd and grub ==<br /> <br /> Running Alpine as Dom U under Alpine.<br /> Went through the tutorial and everything went pretty smooth until configuring grub.<br /> <br /> localhost:/etc# cat /boot/grub/menu.lst<br /> default 0<br /> timeout 5<br /> <br /> title alpine-xen-pv<br /> root (hd0,0)<br /> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-grsec modules=sd-mod,usb-storage,ext4,squashfs console=hvc0<br /> root=/dev/xvda3<br /> initrd /boot/initramfs-grsec<br /> <br /> <br /> Seems that grub is having an issue with finding /dev/initrd<br /> <br /> From grub:<br /> <br /> Booting 'alpine-xen-pv'<br /> <br /> root (hd0,0)<br /> Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83<br /> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-grsec modules=sd-mod,usb-storage,ext4,squashfs console=hvc<br /> 0<br /> root=/dev/xvda3<br /> <br /> Error 11: Unrecognized device string<br /> <br /> Press any key to continue...<br /> <br /> So attempted to mknod /dev/initrd, but it seems to disappear on reboot.<br /> and that is where I am today.</div>

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