Bug#580500: workaround

2011-02-22 Thread 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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Bug#580500: workaround

2011-02-11 Thread Heikki Levanto
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.

Another way is to
  apt-get remove --purge grub2 grub-pc
  apt-get autoremove
  apt-get install grub-legacy
  grub-install
  update-grub

and reboot - not before you have done all the steps above!


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