Re: [Xen-users] Problem using Xen - SATA

["Andrew Lyon" <andrew.lyon@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Daniel Bojczuk <danielbojczuk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an Slackware 12.1 running on Intel Core2Quad, 4 Gb RAM. (The result
> of dmesg is attached on this e-mail)
>
> I have downloaded 'Xen 3.3.0 official source distribution tarball' from
> www.xen.org. Run make world, make install. Have no errors.
>
> Installed GRUB correctly and added the following lines on menu.list:
>
>  title Xen 3.3
>  root (hd0,1)
>  kernel /xen.gz dom0_mem = 262144
>  module /vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-xen root=/dev/sda1 ro
>
> And my partition table:
>
> /dev/sda1 - /
> /dev/sda2 - /boot
> /dev/sda3 - /var
> /dev/sda4 - /home
> /dev/sda5 - /usr
>
> But when I try to use the xen kernel, he can't find /dev/sda1. I think
> that's because it doesn't reconized the sata controller.
>
> I don't know what can I do.
>
> Thanks for helping,
> Sorry for my english.
>
> Daniel
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I had the same problem, I used the suse 2.6.25 xen patches to build a
more up to date dom0 kernel, if you search the list archives you
should find a thread with details of how to apply the patches.

Andy

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