> Note about disk partitioning: Make /boot partition the primary (first)
>>    partition and choose the filesystem type as "ext3" (not "ext4" - which is
>>    the default)

It was written concerning Dom0 set-up  on top F13 not DomU

Boris.

--- On Mon, 9/6/10, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-users] Step-by-step tutorial: Installing Xen 4.0.1 rpms on Fedora 13 with pvops Linux 2.6.32.x dom0 kernel
To: "Pasi Kärkkäinen" <pasik@iki.fi>
Cc: xen@lists.fedoraproject.org, "Boris Derzhavets" <bderzhavets@yahoo.com>, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, virt@lists.fedoraproject.org, xen-users@lists.xensource.com
Date: Monday, September 6, 2010, 8:57 PM

On 09/05/2010 10:20 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 05:18:07AM -0700, Boris Derzhavets wrote:
>>    > Note about disk partitioning: Make /boot partition the primary (first)
>>    partition and choose the filesystem type as "ext3" (not "ext4" - which is
>>    the default)
>>
>>    Could you , please , explain why ?
>>
> It's "just in case". It's not really required.
> I prefer making sure every tool out there can read /boot partition
> to avoid problems :)

pvgrub can't handle ext4 partitions, and does so in a non-obvious way
(often by just going into a spin loop...).

    J

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