On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 10:07:41PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > It doesn't seem to be needed for my simplistic test of installing the > grub-pc .deb and running "install-grub /dev/xvda": > # dpkg -l grub-pc > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold > | > Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend > |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: > uppercase=bad) > ||/ Name Version Description > > +++-==============-==============-============================================ > ii grub-pc 1.96+20080430- GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 > (PC/BIOS > # grub-install /dev/xvda > Installation finished. No error reported. > This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map. > Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect, > fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'. > > (hd0) /dev/xvda > # grub-install /dev/xvda1 > Installation finished. No error reported. > This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map. > Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect, > fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'. > > (hd0) /dev/xvda > > However to my not-so-familiar-with-grub eyes it does look like such a > change would make sense.
If you want to test the full functionality, try using grub-probe to convert /dev/xvda1 to a grub drive (this checks GRUB knows how to count partitions in Xen devices). -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
