"Normal" kernel being before the Xen hypervisor in Squeeze

[Philipp Kern]

Thomas,

am Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 11:48:56AM +0100 hast du folgendes geschrieben:
> I also agree that this needs to be resolved before the release and in my
> opinion this bugs severity should be at least important, if not critical
> because it will "break" Xen dom0 functionality of existing systems when
> they are upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze.
> 
> Of course this could be "fixed" by the user of the package by selecting
> an appropriate GRUB_DEFAULT value, but this is likely to break if new
> kernel versions are installed.
> 
> The appropriate fix is very simple, just rename /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen
> to /etc/grub.d/09_linux_xen or some other number in the range of 06-09.
> 
> A workaround which will work, even if new kernel versions or grub
> upgrades are installed, the user can create a
> symlink /etc/grub.d/09_linux_xen wich points
> to /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen. (This of course will result in duplicate
> grub menuentries for Xen, but should not hurt otherwise.) 

are grub1 installations (which were the default for Lenny AFAIK) auto-upgraded
to grub2 during the dist-upgrade?  If not, it shouldn't break existing Xen
dom0s?

Kind regards
Philipp Kern

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