On Wed, 13 Nov 2013, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:

> On 13.11.2013 20:06, M A Young wrote:
>> It doesn't seem to understand sub-partitions. I can get it to work if
>> the boot files are in /dev/xvda but not in /dev/xvda1 .
>>
> insmod part_msdos
> insmod part_gpt

Right, if I add those to the embedded grub.cfg file I get to the standard 
grub menu and the boot starts. However the boot doesn't get very far - it 
loads the kernel and the initrd file and starts the kernel but the kernel 
doesn't see the virtual disks so it doesn't get very far.

 	Michael Young