Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-users] Step-by-step tutorial: Installing Xen 4.0.1 rpms on Fedora 13 with pvops Linux 2.6.32.x dom0 kernel

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 10:18 +0100, Michal Novotny wrote:
> On 09/07/2010 11:07 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 01:57 +0100, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> >    
> >> On 09/05/2010 10:20 PM, Pasi KÃrkkÃinen wrote:
> >>      
> >>> On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 05:18:07AM -0700, Boris Derzhavets wrote:
> >>>        
> >>>>     >  Note about disk partitioning: Make /boot partition the primary 
> >>>> (first)
> >>>>     partition and choose the filesystem type as "ext3" (not "ext4" - 
> >>>> which is
> >>>>     the default)
> >>>>
> >>>>     Could you , please , explain why ?
> >>>>
> >>>>          
> >>> It's "just in case". It's not really required.
> >>> I prefer making sure every tool out there can read /boot partition
> >>> to avoid problems :)
> >>>        
> >> pvgrub can't handle ext4 partitions, and does so in a non-obvious way
> >> (often by just going into a spin loop...).
> >>      
> > There are ext4 patches in various distro grub1 packages, such as those
> > which inspired the patch in 20652:c6ee21dca848 to pygrub/libfsimage.
> >    
> 
> I don't know how is it with pvgrub but pygrub is using libfsimage where 
> ext2fs-lib subdirectory resides. If you're having e2fsprogs version that 
> supports ext4 (should be available in Fedora 10 and higher AFAIK) you 
> should have no problem with ext4 support there.

pvgrub is native grub running as a PV stub domain, it uses the regular
grub filesystem backends not e2fsprogs or libfsimage etc.

Ian.


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