Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0 of 6] pygrub fixes to support a Fedora 16 guest

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 07:22:46AM -0700, Boris Derzhavets wrote:
>    Please, back port  to xen-4.1-testing.hg.
> 

Yep, this pygrub patch series is already in xen-unstable.hg,
and it should be backported to xen-4.1-testing.hg aswell,
so upcoming Xen 4.1.3 will support F16 PV domUs.

(It's already included in Michael's Fedora 16 xen rpms,
and works well there.)

-- Pasi


> 
>    --- On Wed, 10/19/11, M A Young <m.a.young@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>      From: M A Young <m.a.young@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>      Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0 of 6] pygrub fixes to support a Fedora 16
>      guest
>      To: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>      Cc: "Ian Campbell" <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
>      Date: Wednesday, October 19, 2011, 7:02 PM
> 
>      This series contains patches that may be needed to allow pygrub to boot
>      a Fedora 16 guest.
> 
>      By default, Fedora 16 has GPT partitions and uses grub2. The first GPT
>      partition is a grub2 boot partition to store the grub2 code. The second
>      GPT partition contains the /boot filesystem with the kernel and
>      initramfs files and grub2 configuration files. The remaining space is an
>      LVM partition containing the remaining file systems.
> 
>      The first patch allows pygrub to check all the GPT partitions, rather
>      than just the first. This is a repost of the patch I submitted a few
>      days ago with a slightly edited introductory text.
> 
>      The second patch allows pygrub to find the grub2 configuration file
>      which are in the /boot/grub2 directory on Fedora 16.
> 
>      The third patch allows pygrub to handle partition references such as
>      (hd0,gpt2) which occur in the Fedora 16 grub2 configuration file.
> 
>      The fourth patch allows pygrub to parse grub2 configuration files with
>      sub menus by ignoring the submenu line and the corresponding } line. A
>      default Fedora 16 grub2 configuration file doesn't have sub menus but
>      they do occur if the xen hypervisor is installed on the guest.
> 
>      The fifth patch allows pygrub to parse grub2 configurations with the
>      line
>      set default="${saved_entry}"
>      which can occur in the Fedora 16 grub2 configuration file.
> 
>      The final patch adds a sample Fedora 16 grub2 configuration file
>      containing the problems fixed by patches 3,4 and 5.
> 
>          Michael Young
> 
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