[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-users] Step-by-step tutorial: Installing Xen 4.0.1 rpms on Fedora 13 with pvops Linux 2.6.32.x dom0 kernel
On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 10:18 +0100, Michal Novotny wrote: > On 09/07/2010 11:07 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 01:57 +0100, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > > > >> On 09/05/2010 10:20 PM, Pasi KÃrkkÃinen wrote: > >> > >>> On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 05:18:07AM -0700, Boris Derzhavets wrote: > >>> > >>>> > Note about disk partitioning: Make /boot partition the primary > >>>> (first) > >>>> partition and choose the filesystem type as "ext3" (not "ext4" - > >>>> which is > >>>> the default) > >>>> > >>>> Could you , please , explain why ? > >>>> > >>>> > >>> It's "just in case". It's not really required. > >>> I prefer making sure every tool out there can read /boot partition > >>> to avoid problems :) > >>> > >> pvgrub can't handle ext4 partitions, and does so in a non-obvious way > >> (often by just going into a spin loop...). > >> > > There are ext4 patches in various distro grub1 packages, such as those > > which inspired the patch in 20652:c6ee21dca848 to pygrub/libfsimage. > > > > I don't know how is it with pvgrub but pygrub is using libfsimage where > ext2fs-lib subdirectory resides. If you're having e2fsprogs version that > supports ext4 (should be available in Fedora 10 and higher AFAIK) you > should have no problem with ext4 support there. pvgrub is native grub running as a PV stub domain, it uses the regular grub filesystem backends not e2fsprogs or libfsimage etc. Ian. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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