Re: do-it-yourself applet for grub-i386-xen_pvh.bin kernel in trixie & resolute domU

[Pry Mar <pryorm09@xxxxxxxxx>]

the supervisor script *.sh is renamed  to get past as a text file

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#!/bin/sh

PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin:/sbin
target="$1"
platform="$2"
cfgfile="$3"
pvfile=grub-${target}-${platform}.bin
        grub-mkstandalone -v --compress=xz --locale-dir=/usr/share/locale --locales="en@quot" --fonts="unicode" \
         --modules="linux" --themes=""  \
        -O ${target}-${platform} -o $pvfile "/boot/grub/grub.cfg=${cfgfile}"
exit 0

---snip---

On Tue, Feb 3, 2026 at 9:13 PM Pry Mar <pryorm09@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, Feb 3, 2026 at 9:05 PM Pry Mar <pryorm09@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

if needed, this approach works in forky (deb14) too.

It might be necessary to move the root symlinks out of the way:

cd /

mv vmlinuz vmlinuz.new

mv initrd.img initrd.img.new

cheers,

On Tue, Feb 3, 2026 at 8:58 PM Pry Mar <pryorm09@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

trying again to attach the *cfg

On Tue, Feb 3, 2026 at 8:51 PM Pry Mar <pryorm09@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello xen-users,

Have you tried to boot a pvh domU using the i386-xen_pvh pvgrub2 kernel found in

grub-xen-host package? Called:

grub-i386-xen_pvh.bin

In both distro's the domU boot hung on me and I had to `xl destroy <domID>`.

Here is my applet approach to regenerate the *.bin using the distro grub2 software.

1) get the modules

apt-get install grub-xen-bin

2) download from here the 2 attachments, a grub2 script and the supervisor script.

3) chmod +x grub_user_mk_xen_image.sh

4)  run it:./grub_user_mk_xen_image.sh i386 xen_pvh boot-grub-grub.cfg > mks.out 2>&1

hth,

PryMar56

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