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From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: Pygrub backports
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 12:51:14 +0000
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On Fri, 2015-02-27 at 12:29 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> I think the following commits from master should be considered for
> backport:
> 
> 0c12e5b7427b4dfd2dfabf21f6b0e6e24bc8e864
> tools/pygrub: Fix extlinux when /boot is a separate partition from /
> 
> d1b93ea2615bd789ee28901f1f1c05ffb319cb61
> tools/pygrub: Make pygrub understand default entry in string format
> 
> 4ee393f9d6528640c29a0554fdc6cb3e795fb6e8
> pygrub: fix non-interactive parsing of grub1 config files
> 
> 3b279811707dab4bab95c2e952e94ebf4d6badd9
> pygrub: Fix regression from c/s d1b93ea, attempt 2
> 
> 
> Existing Xen 4.4.1 as found in Ubuntu cannot parse the grub.cfg files
> that Ubuntu itself generates, which was:
> 
> Reported-by: Owen Dunn <osd1000@cam.ac.uk>
> 
> Owen kindly tested pygrub from xen.git#master (merged with the
> Debian/Ubuntu patchset, provided by me) and reports that it worked in
> his setup.
> 
> 
> Opinions ?

Sounds good. If we could also get an example of the problematic grub.cfg
to be checked into xen.git/tools/pygrub/examples that would be handy
too.

Ian.