* Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <phco...@gmail.com> [Mon Nov 08, 2010 at 06:23:09PM +0100]: > On 11/08/2010 06:15 PM, Michael Prokop wrote: > > * Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <phco...@gmail.com> [Mon Nov 08, > > 2010 at 05:33:41PM +0100]:
> >>> It fails because of the way openvz guests look like (simfs as > >>> rootfs): > >> What does linux expect as root= on command line in such config? How such > >> config can be detected and needed parameters figured out? Would it be > >> possible to have a root ssh access to such a system (since it's virtual > >> I guess you could copy one that contains no private data and wipe it > >> after we're done). > > There's no root=... in the kernel command line involved, openvz > > guests are like chroots. > If I understand this statement correctly you mean that GRUB isn't used > to boot the system and grub.cfg isn't used, right? Then update-grub > shouldn't be run at all. Correct. > Perhaps you shouldn't even install GRUB packages in this case. > (actually this information shifts the issue from my area > [upstream] to Debian-specific). Can someone familiar with > packaging handle it? When building live systems this isn't really an option. If GRUB needs to be shipped (for example to provide a rescue system) it needs to be installed inside the chroot that's being used to build the live system. regards, -mika-
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