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Booting with PV-Grub

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Booting with PV-Grub

Postby admin » Sat Jul 03, 2010 5:10 am

PV-Grub is a powerful feature of Xen that allows your to boot into your own PV-OPS enabled Linux kernel. You may boot with PV-Grub via the QCP.

This howto explains the process:
http://docs.quantact.com/xen-pvgrub

One step of the process that is an issue for people trying to use the feature is the grub.conf location. Each Linux distribution has its own way of handling grub. For instance, you may or may not have a /boot/grub directory, and you may or may not have a menu.lst.

In order to boot in the QCP under PV-Grub, you must have a /boot/grub/grub.conf, and have it populated with your grub entries. Your distribution may use menu.lst, in which case simply symlink to /boot/grub/grub.conf, such as:

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ln-s /boot/grub/grub.conf /boot/grub/menu.lst


This will ensure that the grub.conf file is in the place the QCP/Xen subsystem is looking to find it at.
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