Subject: Re: NetBSD -CURRENT with Xen3.0.3: grub failed with Error3 and Error
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Rainer Brinkmoeller <rainer.brinkmoeller@web.de>
List: port-xen
Date: 11/05/2006 23:49:53
Manuel Bouyer schrieb:

>Well, I fear you'll have to. I've come in this issue twice with large
>partition, and did never see it with small ones. I suspect grub is, in fact,
>not 64bits safe. When you install the xen + netbsd-XENx_DOM0 kernels just 
>after the netbsd install, it's likely to end up physically near the start
>of the partition. But after some time of filesystem activity, files
>copyed to / ends up past some limit (maybe 8G ?) and grub can't load them.
>It's not a matter of kernel size; just moving these files to a smaller 
>partition made grub able to load them.
>I think it's mandatory to create a small / partition for Xen installs. I'll try
>to add a note about this in the FAQ.
>
FAQ, which? Or do you mean the NetBSD/Xen howto?

Do you think it make sence to add a note about where the file 
xen-3.0.3_0-install-x86_32.tgz could be downloaded
(e.g. http://www.xensource.com/xen/downloads/dl_303tarballs.html) 
because this is a different to Xen 2 too.

By the way, i updated the howto's cause at the url 
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/xen/downloads.html
is no link anymore to download xen-2.0.x-install.tgz.
There is a http download side 
(http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/xen/downloads/) but the new 
file names
are xen-2.0.x-install-x86_32.tgz

It is not commited yet, but i think it will be in the next days.

regards,
Rainer