Re: NetBSD -CURRENT with Xen3.0.3: grub failed with Error3 and Error 13

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 12:30:38AM +0100, Rainer Brinkmoeller wrote:
> Well, the problem could be the same cause i use a single 140GB partition 
> too.
> Does this mean i have to reinstall NetBSD? No, please ;-(

Well, I fear you'll have to. I've come in this issue twice with large
partition, and did never see it with small ones. I suspect grub is, in fact,
not 64bits safe. When you install the xen + netbsd-XENx_DOM0 kernels just 
after the netbsd install, it's likely to end up physically near the start
of the partition. But after some time of filesystem activity, files
copyed to / ends up past some limit (maybe 8G ?) and grub can't load them.
It's not a matter of kernel size; just moving these files to a smaller 
partition made grub able to load them.
I think it's mandatory to create a small / partition for Xen installs. I'll try
to add a note about this in the FAQ.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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