Re: Re: [Xen-users] Step-by-step tutorial: Installing Xen 4.0.1 rpms on Fedora 13 with pvops Linux 2.6.32.x dom0 kernel

[Michal Novotny <minovotn@redhat.com>]

On 09/07/2010 11:07 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 01:57 +0100, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>    
>> On 09/05/2010 10:20 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>>      
>>> On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 05:18:07AM -0700, Boris Derzhavets wrote:
>>>        
>>>>     >  Note about disk partitioning: Make /boot partition the primary (first)
>>>>     partition and choose the filesystem type as "ext3" (not "ext4" - which is
>>>>     the default)
>>>>
>>>>     Could you , please , explain why ?
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> It's "just in case". It's not really required.
>>> I prefer making sure every tool out there can read /boot partition
>>> to avoid problems :)
>>>        
>> pvgrub can't handle ext4 partitions, and does so in a non-obvious way
>> (often by just going into a spin loop...).
>>      
> There are ext4 patches in various distro grub1 packages, such as those
> which inspired the patch in 20652:c6ee21dca848 to pygrub/libfsimage.
>    

I don't know how is it with pvgrub but pygrub is using libfsimage where 
ext2fs-lib subdirectory resides. If you're having e2fsprogs version that 
supports ext4 (should be available in Fedora 10 and higher AFAIK) you 
should have no problem with ext4 support there.

Michal

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Michal Novotny<minovotn@redhat.com>, RHCE
Virtualization Team (xen userspace), Red Hat