Package: grub-pc Version: 1.97~beta3-1 Followup-For: Bug #545224 We have been using a recipe Lenny+RAID+Crypto+LVM+Xen+iSCSI with quite a bit of sucess on legacy servers with large disks.
1.0TB, 1.5TB were not an issue. Now with 2.0TB and larger, we are facing GPT parititioning forcing us away from grub-legacy. Following issues worked around for automatic updates in grub.cfg (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=505517), we are now faced with this issue of Xen not booting. We have no packaged options in backports or upstream squeeze(our current grub) or sid that deal with this issue. Once the debian installer is corrected to handle GPT (5.0.3 has issues - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=548156) we expect all new xen setup on large disks to get stuck right here. Xen on Debian stable is one of the strongest backoffice solutions we have, so we are hoping this is resolved through xen-kernel-devel or grub-devel somehow. Let us know how we can help :) cheers, iMac -- Package-specific info: *********************** BEGIN /proc/mounts /dev/mapper/vg2-endor_root / ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0 /dev/md0 /boot ext3 rw,errors=continue,data=ordered 0 0 *********************** END /proc/mounts *********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/device.map (hd0) /dev/sda (hd1) /dev/sdb *********************** END /boot/grub/device.map *********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/grub.cfg # # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE # # It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig using templates # from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub # ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ### set default=0 insmod raid insmod mdraid insmod ext2 set root=(md0) search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c84af6a1-1079-4ff7-9760-61c619549df1 if loadfont /grub/unicode.pf2 ; then set gfxmode=640x480 insmod gfxterm insmod vbe if terminal_output gfxterm ; then true ; else # For backward compatibility with versions of terminal.mod that don't # understand terminal_output terminal gfxterm fi fi set timeout=5 ### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ### set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue set menu_color_highlight=white/blue ### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/09_xen ### insmod raid insmod mdraid insmod ext2 set root=(md0) search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c84af6a1-1079-4ff7-9760-61c619549df1 menuentry "Debian Xen hypervisor 3.2-1-amd64, linux 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64" { multiboot /xen-3.2-1-amd64.gz dom0_mem=512M module /vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 root=/dev/mapper/vg2-endor_root ro console=tty0 module /initrd.img-2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 } menuentry "Debian Xen hypervisor 3.2-1-amd64, linux 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 (single-user mode)" { multiboot /xen-3.2-1-amd64.gz module /vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 root=/dev/mapper/vg2-endor_root ro single module /initrd.img-2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 } ### END /etc/grub.d/09_xen ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ### menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, Linux 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64" { insmod raid insmod mdraid insmod ext2 set root=(md0) search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c84af6a1-1079-4ff7-9760-61c619549df1 linux /vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 root=/dev/mapper/vg2-endor_root ro initrd /initrd.img-2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 } menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, Linux 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 (recovery mode)" { insmod raid insmod mdraid insmod ext2 set root=(md0) search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c84af6a1-1079-4ff7-9760-61c619549df1 linux /vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 root=/dev/mapper/vg2-endor_root ro single initrd /initrd.img-2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 } menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64" { insmod raid insmod mdraid insmod ext2 set root=(md0) search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c84af6a1-1079-4ff7-9760-61c619549df1 linux /vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-amd64 root=/dev/mapper/vg2-endor_root ro initrd /initrd.img-2.6.26-2-amd64 } menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (recovery mode)" { insmod raid insmod mdraid insmod ext2 set root=(md0) search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c84af6a1-1079-4ff7-9760-61c619549df1 linux /vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-amd64 root=/dev/mapper/vg2-endor_root ro single initrd /initrd.img-2.6.26-2-amd64 } ### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ### ### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ### # This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the # menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change # the 'exec tail' line above. ### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ### *********************** END /boot/grub/grub.cfg -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages grub-pc depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy ii grub-common 1.97~beta3-1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii ucf 3.0016 Update Configuration File: preserv grub-pc recommends no packages. Versions of packages grub-pc suggests: pn desktop-base <none> (no description available) pn genisoimage <none> (no description available) -- debconf information: grub-pc/kopt_extracted: false grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline: * grub-pc/install_devices: /dev/sda, /dev/sdb grub-pc/postrm_purge_boot_grub: false * grub2/linux_cmdline: grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline_default: quiet * grub2/linux_cmdline_default: grub-pc/chainload_from_menu.lst: true -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org