From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michal Novotny Subject: 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 Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:18:20 +0200 Message-ID: <4C86035C.1030202@redhat.com> References: <20100905000200.GB2804@reaktio.net> <685533.49430.qm@web56101.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <20100905122055.GG2804@reaktio.net> <4C858DFF.9060909@goop.org> <1283850458.14311.10.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1283850458.14311.10.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Ian Campbell Cc: "xen@lists.fedoraproject.org" , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , Boris Derzhavets , "virt@lists.fedoraproject.org" , "xen-users@lists.xensource.com" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 09/07/2010 11:07 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 01:57 +0100, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > =20 >> On 09/05/2010 10:20 PM, Pasi K=C3=A4rkk=C3=A4inen wrote: >> =20 >>> On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 05:18:07AM -0700, Boris Derzhavets wrote: >>> =20 >>>> > Note about disk partitioning: Make /boot partition the primar= y (first) >>>> partition and choose the filesystem type as "ext3" (not "ext4" -= which is >>>> the default) >>>> >>>> Could you , please , explain why ? >>>> >>>> =20 >>> 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 :) >>> =20 >> pvgrub can't handle ext4 partitions, and does so in a non-obvious way >> (often by just going into a spin loop...). >> =20 > There are ext4 patches in various distro grub1 packages, such as those > which inspired the patch in 20652:c6ee21dca848 to pygrub/libfsimage. > =20 I don't know how is it with pvgrub but pygrub is using libfsimage where=20 ext2fs-lib subdirectory resides. If you're having e2fsprogs version that=20 supports ext4 (should be available in Fedora 10 and higher AFAIK) you=20 should have no problem with ext4 support there. Michal --=20 Michal Novotny, RHCE Virtualization Team (xen userspace), Red Hat