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Re: [Xen-users] PV-GRUB chainloading Grub2


  • To: Xen User-List <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: "Fajar A. Nugraha" <list@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 03:00:33 +0700
  • Delivery-date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:06:19 -0700
  • List-id: Xen user discussion <xen-users.lists.xensource.com>

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 12:25 AM, Thomas Pöhler
<tp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I don’t get the point here. I don’t want to specify a kernel, I just want to
> chainload into grub2 and let him do the bootup. I also tried installating
> grub2 in the partition itself and then referencing to (hd0,0).

Short answer, you can't.

pv-grub is not a "real" bootloader. It can't chainload another
bootloader. That would require some features provided by BIOS, which
PV domU doesn't have.

-- 
Fajar

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