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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: M A Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 6] pygrub fixes to support a Fedora 16 guest
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:44:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111020014414.GB6680@phenom.dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1110192358140.15667@vega-a.dur.ac.uk>

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 12:02:21AM +0100, M A Young wrote:
> This series contains patches that may be needed to allow pygrub to
> boot a Fedora 16 guest.
> 
> By default, Fedora 16 has GPT partitions and uses grub2. The first
> GPT partition is a grub2 boot partition to store the grub2 code. The
> second GPT partition contains the /boot filesystem with the kernel
> and initramfs files and grub2 configuration files. The remaining
> space is an LVM partition containing the remaining file systems.
> 
> The first patch allows pygrub to check all the GPT partitions,
> rather than just the first. This is a repost of the patch I
> submitted a few days ago with a slightly edited introductory text.
> 
> The second patch allows pygrub to find the grub2 configuration file
> which are in the /boot/grub2 directory on Fedora 16.
> 
> The third patch allows pygrub to handle partition references such as
> (hd0,gpt2) which occur in the Fedora 16 grub2 configuration file.
> 
> The fourth patch allows pygrub to parse grub2 configuration files
> with sub menus by ignoring the submenu line and the corresponding }
> line. A default Fedora 16 grub2 configuration file doesn't have sub
> menus but they do occur if the xen hypervisor is installed on the
> guest.
> 
> The fifth patch allows pygrub to parse grub2 configurations with the line
> set default="${saved_entry}"
> which can occur in the Fedora 16 grub2 configuration file.
> 
> The final patch adds a sample Fedora 16 grub2 configuration file
> containing the problems fixed by patches 3,4 and 5.

You can add Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
to them too.

Thanks for making the changes.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-20  1:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-19 23:02 [PATCH 0 of 6] pygrub fixes to support a Fedora 16 guest M A Young
2011-10-20  1:44 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2011-10-21 10:40 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2011-10-22 14:22 ` Boris Derzhavets
2011-11-16 18:41   ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2011-12-14  9:03     ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2011-12-14 12:11       ` M A Young
2012-01-09 16:35         ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2012-01-10 17:14           ` Ian Jackson
2012-01-10 21:41             ` Pasi Kärkkäinen

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