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Re: [Xen-users] Ubuntu feisty dom0 and centos 5.1 domU problems

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Mark Williamson
<mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  What version of Xen were you using?  Where did you get it?  What host OS?

  I first tried this with the 3.2 packages from ubuntu hardy, but I also built
the tools from pristine xen sources and saw the same behaviour.

>  This is really a Xen bug that ought to be fixed (if it has not been fixed
>  already), so I guess it'd be good to have more data on exactly what might
>  have gone wrong, in case somebody comes across it again.

  This isn't a xen-specific bug.  The "bug" is that the code used by pygrub,
which appears to have been largely lifted from grub, can't read from a 16k
block size UFS/FFS filesystem; in fact, it appears that the 8k block size
is hardcoded in the code and no attempt is made to determine the actual
block size of the UFS filesystem.

  If you're interested in seeing the bug in action, you can download the
disk image(s) and a little script to trigger the bug from here:
  http://www.netavail.com/xen/pygrub-bug/

cheers,
  Brent

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