From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JuS7H-0007El-Gi for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 May 2008 08:54:27 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JuS7G-0007E8-Gr for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 May 2008 08:54:26 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JuS7F-0007DW-D3 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 May 2008 08:54:25 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39626 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JuS7E-0007DT-Va for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 May 2008 08:54:25 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:44613) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JuS7E-0005RW-S4 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 May 2008 08:54:25 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JuS7C-0001qx-Np for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 May 2008 14:54:23 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JuS6P-0008Iv-EW for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 May 2008 14:53:33 +0200 Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 14:53:33 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080509125333.GC3705@thorin> References: <1209065321.2063.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1210087760.30746.44.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> <1210109603.20736.14.camel@dv> <20080507124326.GA16492@thorin> <1210181595.2321.22.camel@dv> <1210186300.18090.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1210193368.17396.7.camel@dv> <1210194461.18090.61.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1210194461.18090.61.camel@localhost.localdomain> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: Please support installation on Xen virtual block devices X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 12:54:26 -0000 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). -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)