http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=516677 Summary: grub fails to recognize filesystem on partitionless hd, in DomU booted on pv-grub Dom0 Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Final Platform: All OS/Version: openSUSE 11.1 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Bootloader AssignedTo: jsrain@novell.com ReportedBy: pgnet.dev@gmail.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0 ( not clear if this is a bootloader or xen issue, or both ... ) i'm booting opensuse 11.1 DomU under a pv-grub-x86_32 Dom0. @ DomU, my menu.lst is, cat /boot/grub/menu.lst default 0 timeout 8 gfxmenu (hd0)/boot/message title PVGRUB root (hd0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-xen root=/dev/xvdc resume=/dev/xvdb kbdtype=us text nofb selinux=0 edd=off splash=silent noshell showopts initrd /boot/initrd-xen but, DomU grub fails to recognize the filesystem /root > grub GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device/filename. ] grub> root (hd0) root (hd0) Filesystem type unknown, using whole disk grub> and subsequently fails to load any configuration. booting the DomU, @ console, i see: Booting 'PVGRUB' root (hd0) -> Filesystem type is ext2fs, using whole disk kernel /boot/vmlinuz-xen root=/dev/xvdc resume=/dev/xvdb kbdtype=us text nofb s elinux=0 edd=off splash=silent noshell showopts initrd /boot/initrd-xen close blk: backend at /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/329/51712 close blk: backend at /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/329/51728 close blk: backend at /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/329/51744 close blk: backend at /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/329/51760 Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset Initializing cgroup subsys cpu Linux version 2.6.27.25-10-xen (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.3.2 [gcc-4_3-branch ... i.e., pv-grub's grub does't have the recongition problem. this is, apparently, related to a known xen/pv-grub issue, "PV-GRUB and partitions" http://bblank.thinkmo.de/blog/archive/2008/09/13/pv-grub-and-partitions & "Re: [Xen-devel] PV-GRUB - Does not read partition-less disk" http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2008-09/msg00495.html which has a submitted patch to grub sources, http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2008-09/msg00589.html Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.