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[Xen-devel] Re: Grub2 on Xen PV

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Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: Grub2 on Xen PV
From: Ferenc Wagner <wferi@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 21:41:19 +0200
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Ferenc Wagner <wferi@xxxxxxx> writes:

> I contacted the Grub people, and they seem more interested in
> creating a native Xen port of Grub than piggybacking the Mini-OS
> environment using kexec as I tried.

Just to report back on the stubdom approach as well: grub-emu is
running and is capable of reading its config from an XFS LV via
blkfront.  Being a debugging tool, it has no loader support, though,
and the menu is redrawing continuously, so it's unusable.
-- 
Feri.

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