Subject: Re: NetBSD -CURRENT with Xen3.0.3: grub failed with Error3 and Error 13
To: Rainer Brinkmoeller <rainer.brinkmoeller@web.de>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-xen
Date: 11/07/2006 11:37:36
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 11:49:53PM +0100, Rainer Brinkmoeller wrote:
> 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?

Yes, I was talking about the 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.

Maybe we should just tell users to use the xenkernel package :)

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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