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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Andy Burns <xen.lists@burns.me.uk>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: Re: F16, yum install xen, run grub2 or grubby as needed?
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:08:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110921180819.GE17357@phenom.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE1-PRcO=7dBYxwJCq0L0Q6qcT=Nbnf4d2Sg3f=780MRxpKOaw@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 08:53:29PM +0100, Andy Burns wrote:
> On 16 September 2011 09:35, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
> <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:29:50PM +0100, M A Young wrote:
> >> On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> >>
> >>> realized that I had to manually do:
> >>> grub2-mkconfig > /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
> 
> Yes, I've been manually running that too, but the resuling grub.cfg
> file from when I manually regenerate it is subtly different from the
> grub.cfg generated after automatically installing a new kernel ...
> 
> The one generated by manually running grub2-mkconfig creates a Xen
> submenu with all the various kernels under it, whereas after
> installing a new kernel, the one generated has all the xen + kernels
> in the top level menu.

Oh, well, that is kind of convient. So you install new kernel and viola
the new kernel boots in the hypervisor kernel?


> 
> >> grub2 creates a
> >> set of entries for each of xen-4.1.1.gz and its two symbolic links
> >> xen-4.1.gz and xen.gz which is a bit untidy, so perhaps it makes
> >> sense to remove the symbolic links.
> 
> I've submitted a bug with a patch to make the /etc/20_linux_xen helper
> script ignore the symbol files and symbolic links, if there's no need
> for the symbolic links the patch could be even simpler.

Could you also send the patch to upstream grub2? So that other
distros can benefit as well?

> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738085
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-21 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-15 15:46 F16, yum install xen, run grub2 or grubby as needed? Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-09-15 21:29 ` M A Young
2011-09-16  8:35   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-09-18 19:53     ` Andy Burns
2011-09-21 18:08       ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2011-09-22  1:16         ` Andy Burns
2011-09-22  1:28         ` Andy Burns

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