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Re: [Xen-devel] pvgrub

On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 12:03 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On 04/02/2010 11:51 AM, David P. Quigley wrote:
> > So when I made the image I made 1 partition and its ext3. So the boot
> > information is on the same root partition as the rest of the system. I
> > don't know if that might be an issue. Its definitely ext3 though.
> >    
> 
> Should be OK from that perspective then.  pvgrub generally seems to be 
> having reliability problems with current versions of Xen.  If I use vfb 
> then I can get the menu displayed, but then it crashes as soon as I 
> select a kernel.  If I don't have vfb then it crashes in a different way.
> 
> What happens if you don't point at the menu and just drop into the grub 
> command line?  Does that work?  Does it hang when you manually select a 
> kernel and initrd?
> 
>      J
> 

If I remove my storage entry so it doesn't have access to the menu I get
the grub command prompt. I just tried removing my extra line which
points to the menu for grub while leaving the disk line in and it hangs
the same way with the output I posted in the first email.

Dave


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