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...stall grub2 it drags in more stuff, and > then I end up with update-grub and a /boot/grub/grub.cfg file as result. For the record, you wanted grub-xen rather than grub-xen-bin. > I just copied *.mod that I got from my grub build (with the make blah > shown before) into /usr/lib/grub/i386-xen_pvh of the domU, I'd expect them to need to be in /boot/grub/i386-xen_pvh/ in order for the boot loader to read them; grub-install copies modules there. (However, a standalone image normally shouldn't need to read modules from the guest anyway.) > When trying to start that, I get: > &g...

...>8 ---- I'm currently running self-built boot images, and use the following recipe to create those: git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/grub.git cd grub ./autogen.sh rm -rf foo/build mkdir -p foo/build cd foo/build ../../configure TARGET_LDFLAGS=-static --target=i386 --with-platform=xen_pvh make Now, I create a grub.cfg file and then... ./grub-mkstandalone --grub-mkimage=./grub-mkimage -o grub-i386-xen_pvh.bin -O i386-xen_pvh -d grub-core/ boot/grub/grub.cfg=grub.cfg ...I end up with something that I can use as kernel image for the Xen PVH virtual machine. ---- >8 ---- I tried...

...r? > > I think I'm OK with cherry-picking the relevant patch stack. Presumably > this would need to be in new grub-xen-pvh-bin / grub-xen-pvh binary > packages, as is usual for separate platform builds? I was thinking about having an additional... /usr/lib/grub-xen/grub-i386-xen_pvh.bin ...in the grub-xen-host package, built with the same config file (debian/grub-xen-host_grub.cfg in the packaging) and then... /usr/lib/grub/i386-xen_pvh/*.mod ...in grub-xen-bin, just as an additional third option besides i386-xen and x86_64-xen? This would be the most convenient "u...

...n the ordinary way (I've test-built this branch using sbuild). > > Sure. I'll have a look at it today. Ok, I've built it in sid pbuilder. On dom0 (this is actually a buster one): -# dpkg -L grub-xen-host |grep bin /usr/lib/grub-xen/grub-i386-xen.bin /usr/lib/grub-xen/grub-i386-xen_pvh.bin /usr/lib/grub-xen/grub-x86_64-xen.bin In domU I installed grub-xen-bin grub-xen grub2-common grub-common. Note that: Installing for x86_64-xen platform. grub-install: warning: no hints available for your platform. Expect reduced performance. Installation finished. No error reported. ...whic...

...ng the relevant patch stack. Presumably >>> this would need to be in new grub-xen-pvh-bin / grub-xen-pvh binary >>> packages, as is usual for separate platform builds? >> >> I was thinking about having an additional... >> >> /usr/lib/grub-xen/grub-i386-xen_pvh.bin >> >> ...in the grub-xen-host package, built with the same config file >> (debian/grub-xen-host_grub.cfg in the packaging) and then... >> >> /usr/lib/grub/i386-xen_pvh/*.mod >> >> ...in grub-xen-bin, just as an additional third option besides i386-x...

On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 08:44:50AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 01:58:19AM +0100, Hans van Kranenburg wrote: > > Ok great. Since I'm not using (and probably not going to use) the > > multi-stage multiboot things, this is harder for me to help with. > > With any luck I should be able to work that bit out myself, since I > think stable's Xen