Re: dom0 kernel immediate reboot?

["Sarton O'Brien" <bsd-xen%roguewrt.org@localhost>]

On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 06:20:53 am Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 02:58:40PM -0500, david l goodrich wrote:
> > On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:47:53 +0200, Manuel Bouyer
> > <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 09:54:25PM +1000, bsd-xen%roguewrt.org@localhost 
> > > wrote:
> > >> > this way.
> > >>
> > >> Heh, in the end mine is too :)
> > >>
> > >> I'm sure it used to boot from /usr though.
> > >
> > > Yes, for bigger filesystems it can work. It basically depends on the
> > > offset
> > > of the data blocks in the partition. If the block numbers are low grubs
> > > works,
> > > if they are high grubs loads garbage. On a fresh filesystem the
> > > new files are likely to end up at the beggining of the partition
> > > (especially if the directory tree isn't too depth). After some use you
> > > copy a new xen.gz, it gets a high inode number and high blocks numbers,
> > > and
> > > can't be loaded.
> >
> > I understand this, and understand that this is The Way It Is Now.
> >
> > But isn't this a ... bug?  Has anyone filed anything with grub?
>
> it's a bug, and no I didn't report it to grub ...

I might add, that this only seems to be a bug for compressed images as this is 
my existing grub config:

kernel (hd0,e)/pkg/xen3-kernel/xen dom0_mem=131072 vga=text-80x25

And so long as it's decompressed, no probs.

Sarton