Bug#580500: workaround

[Heikki Levanto]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:49:29AM +0100, Heikki Levanto wrote:
> The problem seems to be that grub2 wants to boot the machine into a regular
> linux kernel, and not the xen hypervisor.
> 
> There is a workaround at 
>   http://wiki.debian.org/Xen#XenonTesting.2BAC8-SqueezeandonUnstable.2BAC8-SidasDom0.2CtocreateamultitudeofDomU.27s    

> In short it is 
>   mv -i /etc/grub.d/10_linux /etc/grub.d/50_linux
>   update-grub2
> 
> This makes it prefer the hypervisor.

Actually, that will give problems next time you upgrade grub. If nothing else, do a
  echo "#moved to 50_linux" > /etc/grub.d/10_linux
so that apt will warn you before (re)establishing 10_linux.

It would be more correct to edit the default line in /etc/alternatives/grub to 
point to the hypervisor you want to start. That is also the place to set up
boot parameters for the hypervisor and for the kernel it boots dom0 in.

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Heikki Levanto    heikki at indexdata dot dk   "In Murphy We Turst"