The grub version installed from pkgsrc is rather old
and I am not sure if it does support booting of compressed gz images.
Probably Manuel used a more recent version.


Rick


On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 10:51:14 +0200
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 01:55:36AM -0600, RJ45 wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> grub does not accept xen.gz
>>>
>>> I had to uncompress it first, and then it works now.
>>
>> Strange. I always use compressed kernels with xen.
>>
>
> For what it's worth, I've had the same problem on 4.0beta2 with Xen
> 3.0.3.  I had enough other stuff to learn how to do that I didn't fight
> it; I simply uncompressed it and went on to other things.
>
>
> 		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
>