Re: [Xen-users] Does anyone use Slackware w/Xen

[Steve Spencer <sspencer@xxxxxxxx>]

Wouter,

Thanks for the response.

I did some checking, and the current running kernel does not have (in 
its config) the CONFIG_SCSI_SATA option at all.  Believe it or not, I've 
tried the initrd build as well and that gave me a similar error, 
although not exactly the same as the one created from the build.
Do you know is there a way to patch the current running kernel with the 
xen options?  Perhaps that would give me more luck.
Let me know.

Thanks,
Steve


Wouter de Geus wrote:
> To reply to your topic:
> Yes, I run Slackware w/Xen.
>
> To be more specific, I'm running slackware 11.0 as a Dom0 with Xen 3.1.
>
> Your grub config looks almost the same as mine, except I'm using md0 instead of 
> sda2 to boot from.
>
> Did you configure your kernel yourself?
> If not you probably need an initrd to load the kernel modules required for your 
> sda device
> and filesystem.
> I personally don't like the initrd approach very much so I configured my kernel 
> to include all the drivers.
> (which obviously works for me)
>
> You probably need CONFIG_SCSI_SATA=y and CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y in your kernel 
> config, but I can't say much more
> based on the information you provided.
>
> Good luck :)
>
> Wouter.
>
> * Steve Spencer <sspencer@xxxxxxxx> [2008-02-26 07:41:24 -0600]:
>
> > List,
> >
> > I'm trying to use Slackware 12 has the basis for a Xen DomO install. I've 
> > been able to successfully do everything until after the kernel build.  I 
> > believe I'm missing something in the kernel build that would help me fix 
> > this, but have exhausted "Google" and "Xen" sources to date.    Here has 
> > been my procedure so far:
> > 1.) Install Slackware 12 with X and all development packages, ext3 
> > filesystem.
> > 2.) Install swaret for slackware updates, modify the config and run:
> >         a.) swaret --update
> >         b.) swaret --upgrade
> > 3.) Install grub: swaret --install grub
> > 4.) Run grubconfig
> > 5.) Reboot and verify grub install
> > 6.) Download and untar xen-3.2.0.tar.gz
> > 7.) Run hg clone -r 406 http://xenbits.xensource.com/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg
> > 8.) cd xen-3.2.0
> > 9.) Run make world and then make install
> > 10.) vi /boot/grub/menu.lst and add the kernel as a boot option
> >
> > When the machine is booted, it kernel panics and says that it cannot find 
> > block device.  The block device line is setup like the working config, 
> > which still boots fine.  Below is an example of the grub menu.lst:
> > # Linux Xen Kernel
> >   title Linux-Xen on (/dev/sda2)
> >   root (hd0,1)
> >   kernel /boot/xen-3.2.0.gz console=vga
> >   module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-xen root=/dev/sda2 ro console=tty0
> > # Linux bootable partition config begins
> >   title Linux on (/dev/sda2)
> >   root (hd0,1)
> >   kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 ro vga=771
> >
> > Any ideas would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --
> > Steven G. Spencer, Network Administrator
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