Re: [Xen-devel] running pygrub on split-partition disk layouts.

[M A Young <m.a.young@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 21 Nov 2014, Ian Campbell wrote:

> An absolute age ago Michael posted a patch to allow pygrub to work with
> split-partition layouts (i.e. those where the guests disk cfg refers to
> xvda1, xvda2, etc rather than an xvda with a partition table). See
> http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-01/msg02076.html
> (patch itself is below).
>
> Apparently at the time I was of the opinion that this was a reasonable
> workaround for the underlying issue (although I seem to have thought I
> had a better solution, not so sure right now...).
>
> I'm not sure why it didn't go in (in the likely event I just dropped the
> ball -- sorry!).
>
> Anyway, this resurfaced recently in the context of Debian bug #745419:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=745419#27
>
> #745419 seems to be unrelated to Michael's issue, it is a full disk
> image case with an MBR etc.
>
> Michael, are you still carrying this patch to the Fedora packages? If so
> presumably it is without issue in the field so to speak?
Yes, it is still in Fedora (with a minor change to get it to apply as a 
line was added in the surrounding code). I haven't seen any bug reports 
relating to this patch.
        Michael Young

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