[xen-tools-discuss] Defining Partitions

[Axel Beckert]

Hi Tim,

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 04:19:36PM +0200, Tim Bordemann wrote:
> I'm using XEN 4.0.1 and xen-tools 4.2 on one of my servers.
> I'd like to define several partitions, like root , /boot and swap, so I
> created a file in /etc/xen-tools/partitions.d/ and then created a new vm
> using the --partitions= and --pygrub options.
> Unfortunately the grub configuration was wrong - I had to remove all
> occurrences of "/boot" to get the vm booting:

"remove all occurrences" where? In the configuration for xen-tools or
later in the generated xen or grub configurations?

> title           Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
> root            (hd0,0)
> kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-25-server root=/dev/xvda2 ro
> initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-25-server

Not sure if it's the same thing, but we had big troubles (read: we
didn't manage to succeed) on real hardware with Ubuntu 10.04 and
separate /boot partitions. Everything worked fine again if we didn't
insist on a seperate /boot.

		Kind regards, Axel
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