[xen-tools-discuss] Defining Partitions

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

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:

This may be a grub2 bug. At least grub2 in Debian Sid/Squeeze had
quite some problems with separate /boot/ during the last few days
which sound very similar... (Having one of the grub2 upstream
maintainers sitting besides me, telling me this. :-)

		Kind regards, Axel
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