[Pkg-xen-devel] A couple of bugs with patches

[Ian Campbell]

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.
-- 
Ian Campbell

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		-- Lord Kelvin, President, Royal Society, c. 1895
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