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grub2-install /dev/xvda |
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Installing for i386-pc platform. |
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grub2-install: warning: File system `ext2' doesn't support embedding. |
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grub2-install: warning: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be |
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installed in this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are |
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UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged.. |
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grub2-install: error: will not proceed with blocklists. |
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Now what? |
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I'm guessing I can get away with grub not actually installed as long as |
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I stick to PV. |
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However, the guests all reside in partitions on an SSD, so my plan was |
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to have one partition as swap and another one for the system. Both |
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partitions would be let to the guest by entries in the config for the VM. |
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Now I'm wondering if I should rather have a larger partition for each |
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guest and then partition the guest's /dev/xvda into swap and system from |
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within the guest. |
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(I'm not really fond of lvm because it lacks some very important |
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features which greatly reduce its benefits.) |
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What would you guys do? |
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On a side note, would grub even run, considering it's i386 and not |
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amd64? 32bit support is kinda disabled. |
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hw wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I'm installing Gentoo as a xen PV guest. Do I need to install a |
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> bootloader like grub, or should I rather just specify the kernel to boot |
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> in the definition file of the guest? If I do the latter, what about the |
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> kernel command line? |
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> Is there anything I should consider? The host is also running Gentoo. |
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