[Xen-users] Kernel panic booting dom0, possible initrd problem?

["Justin Mahood" <jbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey all,

I'm running SLES9 as my dom0 on a Dell Poweredge2850.  I have 6 SCSI hard disks 
running RAID 10 off from the onboard RAID controller.  I installed the xen 
binaries seemingly without any issues, but whenever I try to boot the Xen 
kernel, I get a kernel panic and the system immediately reboots.  

I don't have a log of the failure text, but the panic deals with being unable 
to find the root path that I've set, /dev/sda1.  My initial guess is that this 
is an initrd issue because of the SCSI/MEGARAID controller.  I'm using the 
initrd pacakged with the xen binaries for SLESsp2.  I also tried booting with 
the regular SLES initrd and got the same panic.  

If it is an initrd issue, how do I add specific modules to the existing xen 
initrd?  I've tried using mkintird, but I can seemingly never get it to work 
right.  

I'm fairly desperate, so any advice you can give me would be fantastic.  

Thanks,

Justin Mahood


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