Package: grub-common Version: 1.98+20100804-14 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream
Hi, For some reason I use the Xen dom0 Kernel provided by OpenSuse 11.3. I take it straight from their rpm package. But I still want to use Debian for my OS. Suse xen kernel is intented to be loaded only if the Xen HV is loaded. According to the file command : #file vmlinuz-2.6.34-12-xen vmlinuz-2.6.34-12-xen: gzip compressed data, from Unix, This is different from the Xen kernel shipped with Squeeze #file vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage Suse Xen kernel is not bootable directly (grub complains with "Invalid magic number) but Debian's is (even without XEN HV). What I suggest is that if vmlinu[xz]* is not of type "Linux kernel x86 boot executable", then 10_linux doesn't add an entry for that particular kernel, because there is no way such a file gives a booting system (with a grub entry starting with linux, ie linux /vmlinuz-2.6.34-12-xen). That type of kernel should be loaded only as a module (20_linux_xen works great here). To sum up : don't assume that because a filename starts with vmlinu* it is necessarily a valid linux Kernel : other distros dont't follow this convention. Thanks, Jordan -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-12-xen (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages grub-common depends on: ii base-files 6.0 Debian base system miscellaneous f ii dpkg 1.15.8.10 Debian package management system ii gettext-base 0.18.1.1-3 GNU Internationalization utilities ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-6 Manage installed documentation in ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libdevmapper1.02.1 2:1.02.48-5 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use ii libfreetype6 2.4.2-2.1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime Versions of packages grub-common recommends: pn os-prober <none> (no description available) Versions of packages grub-common suggests: pn grub-emu <none> (no description available) pn multiboot-doc <none> (no description available) pn xorriso <none> (no description available) -- Configuration Files: /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen' -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org