Re: [Xen-devel] What is the state of blktap2?

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 06:23:55PM -0500, David P. Quigley wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 17:43 -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > > > Here is a little script that fixes most common problems.
> > > > 
> > > > grep -q xenfs /etc/fstab || echo "xenfs                   /proc/xen     
> > > >           xenfs   defaults        0 0" >> /etc/fstab
> > > > if grep -q ata_piix /etc/modprobe.conf ; then
> > > >         NR=`cat /etc/modprobe.conf | grep scsi | wc -l`
> > > >         grep -q pata_oldpiix /etc/modprobe.conf || echo "alias 
> > > > scsi_hostadapter$NR pata_oldpiix" >> /etc/modprobe.conf
> > > > fi
> > > > grep -q hvc /etc/inittab || echo "co:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty hvc0 
> > > > 9600 vt100-nav" >> /etc/inittab
> > > > grep -q hvc0 /etc/securetty || echo "hvc0" >> /etc/securetty
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Is this for a domU or a dom0 pvops kernel? I didn't think that the
> > 
> > Dom0. Thought the sections aobut /etc/inittab and seceretty can be used
> > on DomU too.
> > > terminal for dom0 would be changed to hvc but I'm new to this so I could
> > 
> > It has.
> > 
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> I've been trying for the better part of today to get this working and I
> seem to keep hitting a wall. I finally managed to get the kernel booted
> but only with a serial console. I found out that some modules were
> missing so that might have caused the lack of console support but now
> the kernel won't boot to a prompt at all. I keep running into a null
> dereference in the uhci driver. I can try to rebase Jeremy's patches
> onto a newer kernel.org version but I'd first like to check to make sure
> this isn't already a known problem with a solution.
> 

You can try my .config files for pv_ops dom0 kernel, available from here:
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps

in the "Troubleshooting" section.. just use "make oldconfig" with them.

-- Pasi


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