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

[Pavel Cahyna <pavel.cahyna%matfyz.cz@localhost>]

On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 08:21:38PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 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.

Isn't it better to make a small /boot (or /stand) partition which would
hold only the kernels, like Linux does if the bios does have disk size
limit?

Small / can be inconvenient.

Rainer, can't you steal some space from swap partition to create such
small partition?

Pavel