Re: Please support installation on Xen virtual block devices

[Robert Millan]

On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 10:07:41PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> It doesn't seem to be needed for my simplistic test of installing the
> grub-pc .deb and running "install-grub /dev/xvda":
>         # dpkg -l grub-pc
>         Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
>         | 
> Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
>         |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: 
> uppercase=bad)
>         ||/ Name           Version        Description
>         
> +++-==============-==============-============================================
>         ii  grub-pc        1.96+20080430- GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 
> (PC/BIOS
>         # grub-install /dev/xvda
>         Installation finished. No error reported.
>         This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map.
>         Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect,
>         fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'.
>         
>         (hd0) /dev/xvda
>         # grub-install /dev/xvda1
>         Installation finished. No error reported.
>         This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map.
>         Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect,
>         fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'.
>         
>         (hd0) /dev/xvda
> 
> However to my not-so-familiar-with-grub eyes it does look like such a
> change would make sense.

If you want to test the full functionality, try using grub-probe to convert
/dev/xvda1 to a grub drive (this checks GRUB knows how to count partitions
in Xen devices).

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Robert Millan

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