[xen-tools-discuss] Defining Partitions

[Tim Bordemann]

Hi,

Am Montag, den 25.10.2010, 17:26 +0200 schrieb 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. :-)

I don't think the problem relates to any grub2 bug.
As I said, I have the same problem with creating lenny-vms.

Btw: The host is running Debian lenny, XEN 4.0.1 and xen-tools 4.2. Do
you need any more information about my system?

Tim