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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-users] Strange interaction from grub2 and XEN

To: Marco Nenciarini <mnencia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-users] Strange interaction from grub2 and XEN
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:11:09 +0000
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On 23/11/2009 16:20, "Marco Nenciarini" <mnencia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> I'm looking for a real solution, as find where is the problem and a
>> proper correction, or a rationale that explain what I'm doing wrong.
> 
> I finally found the the root cause of this issue on grub-devel mailing list.
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2009-08/msg00001.html
> 
> Now I wonder if there is any chance to make the xen hypervisor aware of
> this behavior change in grub2.

So they've stopped passing the kernel name as a first element of the command
line, but haven't allocated a new flag or anything to indicate that new
behaviour? What are we supposed to do to detect it and act on it?

 -- Keir



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