On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 09:03:19PM +0300, Marko Ristola wrote: > > Hi > Hello, > I've experimented with a fresh Fedora 16, > Thanks for testing! I need to install F16 myself aswell.. > I've installed Fedora 16 from nightly CD. > Fedora 16 uses Grub2, so grubby fix isn't enough for dom0. > Grub2 has Xen Dom0 config script as /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen on Fedora 16. > The script searches initrd-* files from /boot. > It should search initramfs-* files too. Thus Dom0 will not be able to boot. > I've written a bug report about that, maybe it is against Rawhide now, with > a patch to apply. > bz url? > Another problem on Fedora 16 seems to be that while yum installs a new upgraded kernel, > Xen Dom0 rows will not get generated. I don't know why. > If /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen works okay, grub2 config can be easilly > fixed afterwards by hand with grub2-mkconfig. > > I've learned to switch from Grub1 to Grub2 with BIOS boot (not EFI). > One way is to move partitions down so that there is 1MB or more > disk space outside of partitions, just at disk start. > > Switching to grub2 isn't easy. Better plan and prepare or start from > an empty hard disk before switching to grub2: > Fresh Fedora 16 install into an empty hard disk (without partitions) > does it all for you (creates a "BIOS boot partition", > which is an alternative to "1MB outside partition space"). > -- Pasi -- xen mailing list xen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen
