[Xen-users] How to move from pygrub to pv-grub?

[Kai Schaetzl <maillists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I installed the Xen-3.3.0 rpms from the gitco repo today on a new CentOS 
5.2 machine. I'm using only pv-CentOS guests and everything works just 
fine as it did with Xen 3.2. (e.g. xm create and my domU starts with 
pygrub just fine). However, I see that pygrub is deprecated and that I 
should move to pv-grub. But I don't get this running.

I read the README in /etc/xen, the xmexample.pv-grub and also a few 
threads about pv-grub, for instance 
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2008-08/msg00978.html
and the blog post at http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2008/08/28/xen-33-
feature-pv-grub/ (which isn't really helpful as it is only a general 
overview).

Whatever I do the domU just boots into the grubdom prompt and that's it. 
If I try to specify a kernel I get this: 

grubdom> kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5xen

Error 5: Partition table invalid or corrupt

Of course, there is no partition table. A single partition doesn't have a 
partition table. What am I supposed to hand over here? The path as it 
appears to the dom0 system?

That's the xm config file I use, very simple and straight-forward. I added 
the kernel, extra and root lines one by one following the xmexample.pv-
grub file. No difference. domU starts fine if I use pygrub and comment 
those three extra lines.

name = "dxx"
maxmem = 512
memory = 512
vcpus = 1
#bootloader = "/usr/bin/pygrub"
kernel="/usr/lib/xen/boot/pv-grub-x86_32.gz"
extra = "(hd0,0)/boot/grub/grub.conf"
root = "/dev/sda1 ro"
on_poweroff = "destroy"
on_reboot = "restart"
on_crash = "restart"
disk = [ "phy:/dev/dom0/dxx,sda1,w", "phy:/dev/dom0/dxx-var,sda2,w", 
"file:/home2/swap/dxx.swap,sda3,w"]
vif = [ "mac=00:16:3e:43:20:10" ]

Thanks for any help.

Kai

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