Bug#469578: 10_linux creates xen boot entries that don't work

Robert Millan rmh at aybabtu.com
Fri Aug 1 00:10:46 UTC 2008


On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 03:41:10PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> Attached is now a patch which ignores Xen kernels,
> by grepping for the config options which uses grub-legacy to detect
> them.
> 
> It seems [0] that Xen Dom0 support will be soon in the official kernel.
> I don't know anything about the config options which will be then used.
> 
> So it could be that the config options aren't that right in the future,
> when there's again a Xen Dom0 kernel in Debian or if you compile your
> own.
> 
> But if anyone wants to work on implementing Xen specific handling for
> grub2 then please base your work on that patch now.
> Don't use the filename as I first did.

Do we really want this?  I thought it was unnecessary because of those Linux
versions being obsolete.

Anyway, if you're inclined to, I suggest that you bring it up in upstream.

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