Re: [PATCH 0 of 6] pygrub fixes to support a Fedora 16 guest

["Pasi Kärkkäinen" <pasik@iki.fi>]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 08:41:08PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 07:22:46AM -0700, Boris Derzhavets wrote:
> >    Please, back port  to xen-4.1-testing.hg.
> > 
> 
> Yep, this pygrub patch series is already in xen-unstable.hg,
> and it should be backported to xen-4.1-testing.hg aswell,
> so upcoming Xen 4.1.3 will support F16 PV domUs.
> 
> (It's already included in Michael's Fedora 16 xen rpms,
> and works well there.)
> 

Fedora 16 Xen 4.1.2 src.rpm is for example here:
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/16/SRPMS/xen-4.1.2-2.fc16.src.rpm

and that includes a working backport of these pygryb patches,
in a case they don't apply cleanly to xen-4.1-testing.hg.

-- Pasi


> 
> 
> > 
> >    --- On Wed, 10/19/11, M A Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> wrote:
> > 
> >      From: M A Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk>
> >      Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0 of 6] pygrub fixes to support a Fedora 16
> >      guest
> >      To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
> >      Cc: "Ian Campbell" <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
> >      Date: Wednesday, October 19, 2011, 7:02 PM
> > 
> >      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.
> > 
> >          Michael Young
> > 
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