Devuan bug report logs - #343
xen: Fails to boot Xen by default

Package: xen-hypervisor-4.8-amd64; Maintainer for xen-hypervisor-4.8-amd64 is (unknown);

Reported by: Elliott Mitchell <ehem+devuan@m5p.com>

Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 20:48:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Elliott Mitchell <ehem+devuan@m5p.com>

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Subject: bug#343 closed by Elliott Mitchell <ehem+devuan@m5p.com> (#343
 Fixed with Xen 4.11 packages)
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#343: xen: Fails to boot Xen by default

It has been closed by Elliott Mitchell <ehem+devuan@m5p.com>.

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From: Elliott Mitchell <ehem+devuan@m5p.com>
To: 343-close@bugs.devuan.org
Subject: #343 Fixed with Xen 4.11 packages
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 18:27:10 -0800
Somewhere during the work between 4.8 and 4.11, this bug was fixed.
Originally the file attempting to control the behavior was in
xen-hypervisor-<version>-<arch>, but the 4.11 packages moved it to
xen-hypervisor-common (/etc/default/grub.d/xen.cfg).

I'm guessing this also caused problems for Ubuntu and pretty well all
other Debian derivatives.  I still find I prefer using dpkg-divert to
rearrange /etc/grub.d more suited to me.

This issue though is without any doubt, fixed.


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From: Elliott Mitchell <ehem+devuan@m5p.com>
To: submit@bugs.devuan.org
Subject: xen: Fails to boot Xen by default
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 13:36:36 -0700
Package: xen-hypervisor-4.8-amd64
Version: 4.8.5+shim4.10.2+xsa282-1+deb9u11

The 4.8 version of the Xen package has
'GRUB_DEFAULT="Debian GNU/Linux, with Xen hypervisor"' at the bottom of
/etc/default/grub.d/xen.cfg.  Unfortunately this fails since Devuan is a
distinct distribution and the match fails.

I think the older solution recommended for Wheezy and Squeeze
(https://wiki.debian.org/Xen#Prioritize_booting_Xen_over_native_Linux) of
adding a symbolic link to /etc/grub.d functions better as it doesn't rely
on an exact string match.  That would require coordination with Debian to
rework handling of /etc/grub.d (make a 10_default script which is
meant to be overridden by packages and rename 10_linux to 11_linux).


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