Xen_Dom0_round1

INSTALLATION source:

creating media

during install:

http://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Setting_up_LVM_on_GPT-labeled_disks

EXCEPTIONS:

• lvcreate vg0 -n alpine_swap -L 4G
• mkswap /dev/vg0/alpine_swap
• swapon /dev/vg0/alpine_swap.
• permanent: IN /ETC/FSTAB
• /dev/vg0/alpine_swap swap swap defaults 0 0 ---- DOESN't WORK

formatting boot:

ext4

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OTHER READS:

http://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Setting_up_disks_manually

error

mount: mounting /dev/vg0/alpine_root on /sysroot failed: No such file or directory

Mouting root failed

initramfs emergency recovery shell launched.

dmesg | less

kernel command line: root=/dev/vg0/alpine_root modules=sd-mod,usb-storage,ext4 nomodeset quiet

ATTACHED - LIST OF MIRROR SITES from: http://rsync.alpinelinux.org/alpine/MIRRORS.txt

• Boot from USB
• started dhcp networking for eth0
• added the UK repository
• update & upgrade

vgchange -ay

mkdir /media/newroot

mkdir /media/newroot/boot

mount -t ext4 /dev/vg0/alpine_root /media/newroot

mount -t ext4 /dev/nvme0n1p2 /media/newroot/boot

vi /media/newroot/etc/fstab

-- add entry:

/dev/vg0/alpine_swap swap sw 0 0 -- NOT WORKING

apk add --root=/media/newroot --initdb apk-tools mkinitfs

....this adds mkinitfs to the mount filesystem

cp /media/newroot/lib/modules/4.1.15-2-grsec/kernel/drivers/block/nvme.ko /media/newroot/etc/mkinitfs/features.d/

cd /media/newroot/etc/mkinitfs/features.d/

vi nvme.modules

--- add line kernel/driver/block/nvme*

vi /media/newroot/etc/mkinitfs/mkinitfs.conf

mount -o bind /proc /media/newroot/proc

mount -o bind /dev /media/newroot/dev

mount -o bind /dev/pts /media/newroot/dev/pts

mount -o bind /sys /media/newroot/sys

chroot /media/newroot /bin/bash

mkinitfs -f /etc/fstab

exit

then check the size of initramfs-grsec in the following two dirs:

ls -lh /media/sdb/boot/ <-- ORIGINAL 15.3 megs

ls -lh /media/newroot/boot/ <-- updated and bloated 24.3 megs.

umount /media/newroot/boot

umount /media/newroot/dev/pts

umount /media/newroot/dev

umount /media/newroot/proc

umount /media/newroot/sys

umount /media/newroot/