Re: 512 Mb grub bug

[Gérald Gounot <geraldgounot%gmail.com@localhost>]

2009/4/7 david l goodrich <dlg%dsrw.org@localhost>:
> On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 01:57:08PM +0200, Christoph Egger wrote:
>> On Tuesday 07 April 2009 13:53:36 david l goodrich wrote:
>> > Is this line from the xen howto[1] still true?
>> >
>> > "When partitioning the disk, because of limitations/bugs in grub,
>> > you have to make the root partition smaller than 512Mb"
>>
>> *If* you use grub, then yes. If you use the netbsd bootloader,
>> then you don't mind about grub's drawbacks.
>
> Wait, you don't have to use grub any more?
>
Since 5.0, you can add a line in the NetBSD bootloader configuration
file, /boot.cfg, in order to boot Xen.

For example:

  menu=Boot Xen dom0:load /netbsd-XEN3_DOM0 console=pc;multiboot
/xen.gz dom0_mem=256M -s

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Gérald Gounot