[Fedora-xen] Fedora 11 Xen domU grub.conf timeout=0 problem with pygrub

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:09:15AM +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 01:34 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> 
> > #boot=/dev/xvda
> > default=0
> > timeout=0
> > splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> > hiddenmenu
> > title Fedora (2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i686.PAE)
> >         root (hd0,0)
> >         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i686.PAE ro
> >         root=/dev/mapper/vg_f11domu-lv_root rhgb quiet
> >         initrd /initrd-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i686.PAE.img
> > 
> > 
> > timeout=0 looks suspicious.. so I changed it to 5. 
> > After that domU comes up OK on its own..
> > 
> > I changed timeout back to 0, and pygrub gets stuck again.
> > 
> > Is this a bug of pygrub, or a broken default grub.conf timeout value of F11?
> 
> timeout=0 should be fine, it sounds like a pygrub bug
> 

Indeed. 

RHEL5.3 version of pygrub seems to work with F11 domU, but the upstream Xen
3.4.1 pygrub doesn't. The version numbers are the same (both are 0.6).

I'll make a diff and try to figure out the fix for this..

Are you guys planning to post the RHEL5 pygrub fixes upstream? 

-- Pasi