[Fedora-xen] Fedora 18 and EFI

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 01:36:57PM -0600, W. Michael Petullo wrote:
> I have successfully installed Fedora 18 Beta as Dom0 on one computer,
> and am now trying to do the same on another. I am using all of the
> standard Fedora 18 packages, including xen-4.2.0-6.fc18.x86_64.
> 
> On the second computer, I ended up with an EFI grub2 install.
> 
> I used yum to install xen, and noted that the package installation did
> not update /etc/grub2-efi.cfg.
> 
> I ran grub2-mkconfig by hand, and this added Xen entries to
> /etc/grub2-efi.cfg. However, booting failed: grub2 complained that it
> did not know the multiboot keyword.
> 
> Does anyone have experience getting EFI grub2 to boot Xen/Fedora 18?
> Is my trouble expected?
> 

Did you try native UEFI boot? So booting the xen.efi binary directly from UEFI ? 

Also note that F18 kernel doesn't have proper UEFI support for dom0 (yet),
because it hasn't been upstreamed yet..

-- Pasi