On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Dennis Gilmore <dennis@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > El Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:11:20 +0100 > Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx> escribió: >> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 08:54:59PM +0200, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: >> > pvgrub peeks into the guest disk so it needs to understand the >> > partition table, the filesystem and the grub config file in the >> > guest. Initially it didn't handle things like ext4, grub2 and EFI >> > but AFAIK these should be fine now. I'm not sure what Amazons host >> > systems use but hopefully they run a relatively modern version of >> > pvgrub. >> >> Ok, so we need to be able to write a grub config file. We don't need >> to ship grub, though, right? > > Correct, we only need to write out a grub compatable config file. it > doesnt use a bootloader installed into the disk image at all. it doesnt > care if there is one there or not. Like I mentioned two days ago, the only thing that matters for EC2 images is that the kernel post-install scripts continue to be capable of updating grub configuration files, which means that wholesale replacement of grubby with grub2-mkconfig will probably wind up breaking things. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
