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. Otherwise, it would just simply do what real GRUB can really do. I would really like to see it in Debian ASAP.
Ian Campbell
2011-Nov-10 06:34 UTC
[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#588839: Bug#588839: pv-grub removed ?
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. -- Milt Barber -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-xen-devel/attachments/20111110/5e71a4fa/attachment.pgp>