Bug#610428: grub-common: old-style xen kernels are not recognized as xen kernels by grub-mkconfig

Christian Schwamborn cs at mail.architektur.tu-darmstadt.de
Tue Jan 18 13:03:54 UTC 2011


Package: grub-common
Version: 1.98+20100804-13
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

During the creation of /boot/grub/grub.cfg the script /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen
searches for 'CONFIG_XEN_DOM0=y' in the kernels config file, which is present
in pv-ops kernels. Since old-style patched xen kernels do not have this
configuration attibute, they're not recognized as a xen kernel. For
compatibility reasons it would be beneficial to find something more common to
both, old and new kernels, like maybe 'CONFIG_XEN_PRIVILEGED_GUEST=y'.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages grub-common depends on:
ii  base-files              6.0              Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii  dpkg                    1.15.8.8         Debian package management system
ii  gettext-base            0.18.1.1-3       GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  install-info            4.13a.dfsg.1-6   Manage installed documentation in 
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-7         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1      2:1.02.48-4      The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  libfreetype6            2.4.2-2.1        FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages grub-common recommends:
ii  os-prober                     1.42       utility to detect other OSes on a 

Versions of packages grub-common suggests:
pn  grub-emu                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  multiboot-doc                 <none>     (no description available)
pn  xorriso                       <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information





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