[Pkg-xen-devel] pygrub and xm-debian.cfg, other notes on lenny test

[Ian Campbell]

On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 16:29 +0000, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> My only other concern with the domU is that it has partitioned an LVM 
> volume, and grub installed to the MBR.  That makes it more awkward to 
> mount the LVM volume from dom0 (although not impossible).  Should I have 
> used
> 
> disk = ['phy:vg00/th2_root,xvda1,w']
> 
> instead of
> 
> disk = ['phy:vg00/th2_root,xvda,w']  ?
> 
> Would the grub install work with the latter approach?

I don't like that way myself but I think it would work, the installer
might be confused during the partitioning phase I guess.

I use kpartx in dom0 which makes is reasonably simple to mount the
individual partitions of an LVM device.

Ian.
-- 
Ian Campbell

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