Re: [Xen-users] pv-grub installation problem

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2014-03-30 at 21:39 +0200, Aastha Mehta wrote:

> Thanks for the reply. However, I have still not been able to get this
> working. I tried to replace grub2 with grub1 and so now I have a
> menu.lst boot config file. This is how my config file looks like -

The cfg looks correct to me. It seems that the issue is that it isn't
being read at all.

> I do not know what the last chainload entry is for.

It's to support Debian upgrades on physical hardware between the release
which used grub1 and the release which used grub2 (I can't remember
which those were). Ignore it.

>  The problem to me
> it seems is that somehow xvda is not being identified as a valid
> device and so somehow it either does not have the grub properly
> installed, or my way of specifying the root device is wrong. I have
> tried specifying root as (hd0) as well as (hd0, 0) or (hd0, 1) - both
> in the grub config file and the config file in the host - but it does
> not help. The xvda2 is a separate disk image only, it is not a
> partition.

AFAIU this (separate disk image) should work. I'd expect it to be
"(hd0,1)". Maybe the extra spaces you've got in "(hd0, 0)" have confused
it?

You should be able to investigate this from the grub prompt, e.g. with
ls and help etc. I think it even does tab completion (but its been so
long since I played with grub1 I'm not sure), so you can find out what
devices it thinks it sees.

Ian.


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