Re: grub may hang or ignore on bad/modified *.gz

2005-06-23 Thread Jan Beulich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 23.06.05 02:50:51 Certainly, that's needed. But it is unacceptable that I had to find out I need to do this by debugging grub (after having searched for the problem in t kernel and then in XEN for several hours), because it simply didn't tell me that it in reality didn't

grub may hang or ignore on bad/modified *.gz

2005-06-22 Thread Jan Beulich
As is common practice with (at least) SuSE distributions, and as is also required by the ACPI DSDT override mechanism, a Linux initrd may contain more information than just the gzipped file system image. Since grub only looks at the last 8 bytes to determine crc and original size, it must be

Re: grub may hang or ignore on bad/modified *.gz

2005-06-22 Thread Jan Beulich
Yoshinori K. Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] 22.06.05 14:46:16 I don't know which version you use, but the current version of GRUB should not try to decompress initrd. It just loads initrd as it is. For plain Linux that's true. For domain 0 of xen, however, this is different, because the domain 0

Re: grub may hang or ignore on bad/modified *.gz

2005-06-22 Thread Jan Beulich
Yoshinori K. Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] 22.06.05 16:09:43 On Wednesday 22 June 2005 15:16, Jan Beulich wrote: For plain Linux that's true. For domain 0 of xen, however, this is different, because the domain 0 kernel is already specified as module (XEN itself being a multiboot image), and hence