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Re: [Xen-users] 4.0.1, Debian Squeeze, and p[yv]grub

To: David Markey <admin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] 4.0.1, Debian Squeeze, and p[yv]grub
From: Adi Kriegisch <adi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 11:12:01 +0200
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Hi!

> 1. The parsing logic is flaky in pygrub at best. Its a game of catch-up to
> ensure we are parsing grub.cfg properly.
right, but isn't the issue that grub.cfg's syntax has been a moving target
for some time and the Squeeze version of pygrub is rather old?
 
> 2. I *think* at some stage, debian started forcing block devices from xen-
> blkfront to be /dev/sda instead of /dev/xvda. So once you're dropped to a
> shell, do a dmesg and look in /dev.
Didn't upstream Xen rename block devices to xvd?[0-9]?

-- Adi

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