[Fedora-xen] [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-users] Step-by-step tutorial: Installing Xen 4.0.1 rpms on Fedora 13 with pvops Linux 2.6.32.x dom0 kernel
Boris Derzhavets
bderzhavets at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 7 10:28:31 UTC 2010
> Note about disk partitioning: Make /boot partition the primary (first)
>> partition and choose the filesystem type as "ext3" (not "ext4" - which is
>> the default)
It was written concerning Dom0 set-up on top F13 not DomU
Boris.
--- On Mon, 9/6/10, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy at goop.org> wrote:
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy at goop.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-users] Step-by-step tutorial: Installing Xen 4.0.1 rpms on Fedora 13 with pvops Linux 2.6.32.x dom0 kernel
To: "Pasi Kärkkäinen" <pasik at iki.fi>
Cc: xen at lists.fedoraproject.org, "Boris Derzhavets" <bderzhavets at yahoo.com>, xen-devel at lists.xensource.com, virt at lists.fedoraproject.org, xen-users at lists.xensource.com
Date: Monday, September 6, 2010, 8:57 PM
On 09/05/2010 10:20 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 05:18:07AM -0700, Boris Derzhavets wrote:
>> > Note about disk partitioning: Make /boot partition the primary (first)
>> partition and choose the filesystem type as "ext3" (not "ext4" - which is
>> the default)
>>
>> Could you , please , explain why ?
>>
> It's "just in case". It's not really required.
> I prefer making sure every tool out there can read /boot partition
> to avoid problems :)
pvgrub can't handle ext4 partitions, and does so in a non-obvious way
(often by just going into a spin loop...).
J
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