From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: M A Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: Re: F16, yum install xen, run grub2 or grubby as needed?
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 04:35:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110916083533.GC884@phenom.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1109152224170.2506@vega2.dur.ac.uk>
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:29:50PM +0100, M A Young wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>
> >Hey Michael,
> >
> >I was playing today with https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/grubby-8.2-1.fc16?_csrf_token=014c2b18c3b6e843699e9ef1e56cf9726c5c4fc2
> >and https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/grub2-1.99-6.fc16 which make the grub.cfg have the
> >correct entries of Xen and Linux.
> >
> >And realized that I had to manually do:
> >
> >grub2-mkconfig > /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
> >
> >which ends up doing the new stanza.. but in some sense I think
> >it makes senee for the Xen script to actually call this.
> >
> >Thoughts?
>
> It probably makes sense to have a post-install/post-uninstall script
> in the xen-hypervisor RPM to run this. The updated grub2 creates a
> set of entries for each of xen-4.1.1.gz and its two symbolic links
> xen-4.1.gz and xen.gz which is a bit untidy, so perhaps it makes
> sense to remove the symbolic links.
Taking this a step further.. what about re-ordering the boot order?
Say 'yum install xen-hypervisor' (which implies that the user has a good
idea of what Xen is), would make sure that the Xen 4.1.1 stanze is called
before the baremetal? Not sure what it would entail
(modifying /etc/default/grub?) and whether that is actually OK?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-16 8:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-15 15:46 F16, yum install xen, run grub2 or grubby as needed? Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-09-15 21:29 ` M A Young
2011-09-16 8:35 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2011-09-18 19:53 ` Andy Burns
2011-09-21 18:08 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-09-22 1:16 ` Andy Burns
2011-09-22 1:28 ` Andy Burns
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