[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#643953: Bug#643953: xen-utils-4.0: pygrub can not parse empty "root" statement in menu.lst

[Thomas Goirand]

On 10/01/2011 11:41 AM, Phil Frost wrote:
> Package: xen-utils-4.0
> Version: 4.0.1-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> Trying to get a system that I've long had runing on the bare metal to
> boot as a VM, I discovered that pygrub would not parse my menu.lst. The
> problematic entry is this:
> 
>   # This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
>   # ones.
>   title           Other operating systems:
>   root
> 
> pygrub's parser seems to expect that "root" will be followed by a disk
> specification.

How is this a problem with pygrub? If the configuration file is wrong,
then it's normal not to boot, right? Or are you saying that it wrote a
wrong configuration file? If so, how this happened?

Thomas