Bug#755256: [PATCH] grub-install: Include all decompressor modules in pvxen core image.

Ian Campbell ijc at hellion.org.uk
Sun Nov 30 13:34:23 UTC 2014


On Sun, 2014-11-30 at 11:51 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-11-30 at 14:31 +0300, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> > if [ x$grub_platform = xxen ]; then
> >   insmod xzio
> > fi
> 
> I think that could work.

Indeed it does, so how about this instead of the patch at the start of
the thread?

>From f4199776eca80dfad4e9378a01ddb5866face3d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Campbell <ijc at debian.org>
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 12:12:52 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Arrange to insmod xzio when booting a kernel as a Xen guest

This is needed in case the Linux kernel is compiled with CONFIG_KERNEL_XZ
rather than CONFIG_KERNEL_GZ (gzio is already loaded by grub.cfg).

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc at debian.org>

Patch-Name: insmod-xzio-on-xen.patch
---
 util/grub.d/10_linux.in | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/util/grub.d/10_linux.in b/util/grub.d/10_linux.in
index 79fa03a..86e35f2 100644
--- a/util/grub.d/10_linux.in
+++ b/util/grub.d/10_linux.in
@@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ linux_entry ()
   fi
 
   echo "	insmod gzio" | sed "s/^/$submenu_indentation/"
+  echo "	if [ x\$grub_platform = xxen ]; then insmod xzio; insmod lzopio; fi" | sed "s/^/$submenu_indentation/"
 
   if [ x$dirname = x/ ]; then
     if [ -z "${prepare_root_cache}" ]; then
-- 
2.1.3



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