[Pkg-xen-devel] Patches needed for Debian Installer to work on Lenny (Was: A couple of bugs with patches)

[Ian Campbell]

Reposting with a more relevant title. I'd really like to see some
comment on these bugs or else Debian Installer (or the resulting Lenny
domU) is not going to be usable on a Lenny domain 0 which would be a
shame!

Bastian, apologies for CC'ing you against list policy but I wanted to be
sure you saw this since you seem to be the active maintainer.

Thanks,
Ian.

On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 20:42 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There are a couple of open bugs against Xen-3 with patches which
> directly impact my efforts to have Debian Installer work in a Xen guest
> domain for Lenny.
> 
> In both cases the relevant fixes are already committed in upstream Xen
> and I've been rebuilding and using the Debian packages with them without
> problems.
> 
> First is #476366 which is a pygrub issue that prevents booting a guest
> using pygrub if its partitions were created using a post-Etch mkfs.ext3
> (>= 1.40.5-1 according to #463123 which is the equivalent grub bug). I
> guess this also impacts people building guest domains with
> deboostrap/xen-tools/etc.
> 
> The second is #474509 which is a wishlist bug to enable the booting of
> bzImage format kernel images. This is required to support d-i in a nice
> way since it means we don't need to keep two kernel images in the
> debian-installer directory on the mirror and so on. The kernel half of
> the patch has already been applied to the 2.6.25 kernels in Sid,
> #473645.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ian.
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