[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#588839: Bug#588839: pv-grub removed ?

[Ian Campbell]

On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 23:58 -0500, Gedalya wrote:
> When will we see progress on this?
> pvgrub is the newer and better thing, and it's the only way to do many 
> things.
> For one thing, It should make it easier to boot an OS on a partitioned 
> block device, pygrub can't do that unless you probe the paritions first 
> and make then visible on Dom0 - a hassle.

pygrub can read partition tables directly just fine, there's no need to
make them visible in dom0.

> Otherwise, it would just simply do what real GRUB can really do.
> I would really like to see it in Debian ASAP.

Bastian has asked for people who are interested in this to provide
patches.

Ian.

-- 
Ian Campbell


Any stone in your boot always migrates against the pressure gradient to
exactly the point of most pressure.
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