Re: [PATCH] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/3] domUloader

[Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 01:07:00PM -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> Sounds reasonable enough, although I'll have to look at it a little
> closer when I get back from Austin.  FWIW, partition table handling in
> pygrub should work fine (I'm installing to full disk vbds with partition
> tables regularly)

The partition handling is only enough to find the "active" partition, so
it doesn't handle extended partitions.  That's not a problem for pygrub,
but would need to be done to have the extraction tool handle partitions
properly.

Also, it doesn't work if your e2fsprogs are too old to have
ext2fs_open2() -- again, not really a bug but the failure mode is a bit
ugly, and the version in the Xen 3 tarball has this problem.  Is there
some way of telling from inside a python script whether the pygrub
library is going to be able to read partitions or not?

Tim.

-- 
Tim Deegan                           (My opinions, not the University's)
Systems Research Group
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory

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