Re: [gentoo-hardened] setting up pvgrub on a xen based vps

[Jonathan Aquilina]

Good Morning Anthony,

I ended up managing, it had been such a long time since I used grub1 and
forgot what was in it. Not to mention this was the first time that I had
done such a thing as well.

I had a few issues which i managed to iron out and im running the current
hardened kernel successfully.

Apologies for any noise

Regards,
Jonathan

> On 06/08/14 15:22, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
>> Good evening everyone,
>>
>> I am trying to harden a vps further by setting up PAX grsec and SEL.
>> Currently the vps is using the hosts kernel. My provider has
>> documentation
>> on how to do this but not on how to do it on gentoo. I have been told i
>> need the grub legacy format menu.lst. Is there a way I can just generate
>> my own grub legacy menu.lst or do I need to install grub legacy in its
>> entirety and use it instead of grub 2? If anyone has a link to a
>> tutorial
>> that would be greatly appreciated as documentation seems non existent.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>
> Writing your own menu.lst is easy; just do it manually.  Unliked grub2,
> grub1 (for want of a better name) does not "scan" your system and try to
> write a menu.lst the way grub2 writes a grub.cfg.  So don't install
> grub1 (and thus overwrite grub2's boot sector code) in the hopes that
> you'll get some magic script to write your menu.lst for you.
>
> I'm not sure why you are finding it hard to find resources.  I really
> can't help you more because I don't know your setup.  Obviously if you
> are booting some kernel in your virtual machine using grub1 you already
> have a menu.lst.  Can you use it as a model?
>
>
>
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> Chair of Information Technology
> D'Youville College
> Buffalo, NY 14201
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