Re: Bug#606719: "Normal" kernel being before the Xen hypervisor in Squeeze
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 11:48:56AM +0100, Thomas Schmidt wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 12.12.2010, 14:18 +0800 schrieb Thomas Goirand:
> > For me, it's a grave regression that can put a production environment
> > into big troubles, and it would deserved a RC for me, but because:
> > - of Julien's opinion
> > - that the RT should have the final word
> > - that I respect this view
> > - that delaying Squeeze just for this might not be a good idea
> > - not everyone really cares much about Xen in Debian
> >
> > ... then I sent my report as a wishlist as requested.
>
> I also agree that this needs to be resolved before the release and in my
> opinion this bugs severity should be at least important, if not critical
> because it will "break" Xen dom0 functionality of existing systems when
> they are upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze.
>
> Of course this could be "fixed" by the user of the package by selecting
> an appropriate GRUB_DEFAULT value, but this is likely to break if new
> kernel versions are installed.
>
> The appropriate fix is very simple, just rename /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen
> to /etc/grub.d/09_linux_xen or some other number in the range of 06-09.
I'd prefer this to be decided upstream. What do people on grub-devel
think? It does make some sense that the default should be to use Xen if
it's present, IMO.
(See http://bugs.debian.org/606719 for the full history of this bug.)
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@ubuntu.com]
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