Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Guest boot loader support

[aq <aquynh@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/27/05, Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Mark Williamson wrote:
> >>ok, i see the point.
> >>
> >>other question: pygrub::get_config(fn) tries to read
> >>"/boot/grub/grub.conf". Normally this should be "/boot/grub/menu.lst".
> >>I wonder which distro are you working on?
> >
> > My FC3 box has menu.lst as a symlink to grub.conf.  Grub seems to be happy
> > with either of these names.  Painful experience suggests that if both files
> > are present, then "menu.lst" will "win".
> 
> GRUB only looks for menu.lst; distros create symlinks because that's a
> terrible name for a config file. In other words, no code should be
> opening grub.conf...
> 

ok, so here is a quick patch to fix the "/boot/grub/grub.conf"
problem. Please apply this after applying the last Jeremy's patch.

list of changes:
- make a dummy file tools/pygrub/src/__init__.py
- open and parse /boot/grub/menu.lst instead of /boot/grub/grub.conf

$ diffstat xen-bootloader.aq.patch 
 __init__.py |    1 +
 pygrub      |    7 +++++--
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Signed-off-by: Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh@xxxxxxxxx>

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