Re: setting up pvgrub on a xen based vps

On 06/08/14 15:22, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
> Good evening everyone,
>
> I am trying to harden a vps further by setting up PAX grsec and SEL.
> Currently the vps is using the hosts kernel. My provider has documentation
> on how to do this but not on how to do it on gentoo. I have been told i
> need the grub legacy format menu.lst. Is there a way I can just generate
> my own grub legacy menu.lst or do I need to install grub legacy in its
> entirety and use it instead of grub 2? If anyone has a link to a tutorial
> that would be greatly appreciated as documentation seems non existent.
>
> Regards
>

Writing your own menu.lst is easy; just do it manually.  Unliked grub2, 
grub1 (for want of a better name) does not "scan" your system and try to 
write a menu.lst the way grub2 writes a grub.cfg.  So don't install 
grub1 (and thus overwrite grub2's boot sector code) in the hopes that 
you'll get some magic script to write your menu.lst for you.

I'm not sure why you are finding it hard to find resources.  I really 
can't help you more because I don't know your setup.  Obviously if you 
are booting some kernel in your virtual machine using grub1 you already 
have a menu.lst.  Can you use it as a model?



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