[ Dropping debian-release@ as that does not need to be discussed there, adding debian-doc, they edit the release notes ]
Hi, Thomas, if you don't mind, i still would like to tweak the text a bit. > > [...many English corrections...] > 4.7.4. Xen upgrades > > In Lenny, if you installed Xen, the kernel that grub-legacy would boot by > default was the one providing a Xen hypervisor and dom0 support. If you installed Xen on Lenny, the kernel booted by grub-legacy per default was the one providing a Xen hypervisor and dom0 support. > This does not happen under GRUB 2 in Squeeze. Instead, the non-Xen > kernel will boot by default. This behavior changed with GRUB 2 in Squeeze and the non-Xen kernel will boot per default. > If you need Xen and expect to boot with it by default, you have to > tweak the GRUB 2 configuration as explained at: > > http://wiki.debian.org/Xen#Installationandconfiguration > ... default, find further configuration hints at [link]. > Also, upgrading from the Lenny version of Xen does not automatically install > the current 4.0 version. When upgrading from Lenny version 4.0 of the Xen package will not install automatically. > So, after you finish the dist-upgrade, you should > use an explicit "aptitude install" for Xen 4.0 and a corresponding dom0 > kernel. Instead you need to install Xen 4.0 and a corresponding dom0 kernel explicitly. > See the wiki page for instructions on how to set up the Xen > hypervisor and dom0 kernel under Squeeze. > > Be aware that, if you run a pvops kernel for your domU, like the Xen kernel > 2.6.32 of Squeeze, your domU won't be able to use (for example) sda1 as a > device name for its hard drive. (unchanged) > This naming scheme has been removed from Xen because of a request from > the mainline kernel maintainers. This naming scheme has been removed from Xen upon request of the mainline kernel maintainers. > Instead you should use (as a corresponding example) xvda1, which ... will ... > always work, including when running Lenny 2.6.26 forward ported Xen > patch. Cheers, Martin -- Martin Zobel-Helas <[email protected]> | Debian System Administrator Debian & GNU/Linux Developer | Debian Listmaster Public key http://zobel.ftbfs.de/5d64f870.asc - KeyID: 5D64 F870 GPG Fingerprint: 5DB3 1301 375A A50F 07E7 302F 493E FB8E 5D64 F870 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
