Subject: Re: NetBSD/Xen How to - suggestions
To: None <port-xen@NetBSD.org>
From: Sarton O'Brien <bsd-xen@roguewrt.org>
List: port-xen
Date: 02/06/2008 10:48:33
Matthias Scheler wrote:
>
> On 2 Feb 2008, at 12:17, Andreas Gustafsson wrote:
>>> Also note that root filesystem must be "small", 20 GB is small while 
>>> 100
>>> GB isn't. For some unknown (to me) reasons boot will fail if your / is
>>> too large.
>>
>> Is there a PR about this?
>
> This is a bug in Grub, not in NetBSD.
>
> The best way solution is IMHO to tecah NetBSD second stage boot loader 
> to load
> the Xen hypervisor. Does anybody know what changes would be necessary?
>
>     Kind regards
>


That'd be great, to avoid grub altogether but in the event that never 
happens or it's too difficult, hopefully when grub2 matures it will be 
usable in this scenario. At the least it's in develoment, whereas the 
existing grub is unmaintained.

Has anyone played with grub2?

Sarton