Re: [Xen-users] Failed to boot suse 10.1(domain 0) with IBM xSeries 330

[David F Barrera <dfbp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jonathan Ervine wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 June 2006 08:25, yu dan wrote:
>   
>> Hi ,
>>
>> I have setup xen on a number of different machines already; however, I
>> couldn't get xSeries 330 working with Xen.
>>
>> When it boots up, it says "Waiting for device /dev/sda1 .... device not
>> found" and then return a shell prompt. 
>>     
>
> Is the disk correctly reported as sda1 during the installation process? I'd 
> say this is less of a XEN specific error and closer to something that has 
> gone wrong with the actual SUSE 10.1 installation. I remember problems with 
> SLES 9 with newer SATA hardware being picked up as hda in the install, but 
> then sda during the actual boot of the system, which leads to obvious errors 
> in terms of referring to the first hard disk.
>
>   
>> I have looked up this error on the 
>> mailing list. I found that the error is potentially caused SCSI driver and
>> it can be resolved this problem by customizing kernel, so I downloaded the
>> source, setup required tools (like gcc 3.3.6) ... and recompile the
>> source. The compilation went well (at least, it did not issue any compile
>> error at the end of compilation), but the problem still remain unsolve.
>> Does anyone know how to solve this problem? The following steps are what I
>> have performed during compilation (roughly):
>>
>>     
Try it with these options on:
CONFIG_SCSI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
CONFIG_FUSION=y
CONFIG_FUSION_SPI=y
>
> I'd set XEN aside for the time being and start thinking about getting a 
> vanilla installation to boot.
>
> Regards,
> Jon
>
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Regards,

David F Barrera
Linux Technology Center
Systems and Technology Group, IBM

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