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Re: grub may hang or ignore on bad/modified *.gz


From: Jan Beulich
Subject: Re: grub may hang or ignore on bad/modified *.gz
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 07:16:58 -0600

>>> "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <address@hidden> 22.06.05 14:46:16 >>>
>I don't know which version you use, but the current version of GRUB should not 
>try to decompress initrd. It just loads initrd as it is.

For plain Linux that's true. For domain 0 of xen, however, this is different, 
because the domain 0 kernel is already specified as module (XEN itself being a 
multiboot image), and hence initrd needs to be specified as secondary module 
(and grub will not know this actually is an initrd).

Jan





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