В Tue, 1 Apr 2014 15:46:22 +0800
Michael Chang <mch...@suse.com> пишет:
> While trying to boot xen pv guest with old grub config (menu.lst),
> the pvgrub2 loads it's menu successfully, but when you attemp to boot
> the kernel it failed with the following message.
>
> error: couldn't load file /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.76-0.11-xen.
> error: you need to load the kernel first.
>
> Press any key to continue..."
>
> The kernel is there and boots fine with pygrub.
>
> After some investigation, it boils down to the menu.lst has explicitly
> set it's root device to (hd0,1) and therefore the root device is not
> recognized by pvgrub2.
>
> title Xen -- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 - 3.0.76-0.11
> root (hd0,1)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.76-0.11-xen root=/dev/xvda2 resume=/dev/xvda1
> splash=silent showopts initrd /boot/initrd-3.0.76-0.11.xen
>
> I'd like to know whether old grub configuration is considered or planned
> to work with pvgrub2 ? And is it a viable suggestion to have (hdX,Y) a
> valid xen disk name because it's quite common in some existing configs ?
>
I believe this technically should work; but this needs someone who
knows how Xen disks is mapped to hd number in legacy grub.
It would be something like (completely untested)
From: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidj...@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] accept also hdX as alias to native Xen disk name
This allows reusing legacy pvgrub menu.lst which is using hdX names.
Suggested-By: Michael Chang <mch...@suse.com>
---
grub-core/disk/xen/xendisk.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/grub-core/disk/xen/xendisk.c b/grub-core/disk/xen/xendisk.c
index 2b11c2a..c6c8ecc 100644
--- a/grub-core/disk/xen/xendisk.c
+++ b/grub-core/disk/xen/xendisk.c
@@ -70,9 +70,20 @@ grub_virtdisk_open (const char *name, grub_disk_t disk)
grub_uint32_t secsize;
char fdir[200];
char *buf;
+ int num = -1;
+ if (name[0] == 'h' && name[1] == 'd')
+ {
+ num = grub_strtoul (hd+2, 0, 10);
+ if (grub_errno)
+ {
+ grub_errno = 0;
+ num = -1;
+ }
+ }
for (i = 0; i < vdiskcnt; i++)
- if (grub_strcmp (name, virtdisks[i].fullname) == 0)
+ if ((num != -1 && virtdisks[i].handle == num) ||
+ grub_strcmp (name, virtdisks[i].fullname) == 0)
break;
if (i == vdiskcnt)
return grub_error (GRUB_ERR_UNKNOWN_DEVICE, "not a virtdisk");
--
tg: (4afd010..) e/xen/hdX-compat (depends on: master)
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