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Re: 512 Mb grub bug



On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 02:19:21PM +0200, G?rald Gounot wrote:
> 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

That's fantastic!  Now how do i get rid of grub without
destroying the universe, or rendering my machine unbootable?
`fdisk -i`?
  --david

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