Re: [Xen-users] XEN 4.1.2 + gentoo-sources-3.3.0: cannot open root device sddX

[Flavio <fbcyborg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 27 March 2012 12:26, Benjamin Schweikert <b.schweikert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> could you please replace the device (e.g. /dev/sdd4) by the UUID in
> the grub.cfg and fstab?
>
Hi Ben,

thank you for replying.
I've replaced this line in grub.conf
module /vmlinuz-3.3.0-gentoo root=/dev/sdd4 rootdelay=10
xen-pciback.hide=(00:1b.0)

with this one:
module /vmlinuz-3.3.0-gentoo
root=UUID=a549c8f6-2f5f-4cf0-a3d0-bcac33a09594 rootdelay=10
xen-pciback.hide=(00:1b.0)

and this line in /etc/fstab
/dev/sdd4              /                               ext4
noatime         0 1

with this:
UUID=a549c8f6-2f5f-4cf0-a3d0-bcac33a09594       /       ext4
 noatime         0 1

But, even if the modification in /etc/fstab works (without the grub.conf
modification), the system doesn't
want to boot when I also modify the grub.conf, and this happens on
both kernels: 3.2.6 (the working one) and 3.3.0.

Is some kernel module missing for the use of UUID in grub.conf?
I use grub 0.97-r10.

...

By the way: this is what happens when I boot the system both after and
before trying to use UUID.
Note that I have a laptop with 2 SSDs inside and I am booting from an
external USB device.

boot1: http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/4531/kernelpanic1.png
sda and sdb are recognized correctly.
this time the USB drive is going to be detected as sdc (so if I would
have passed the
root=/dev/sdc4, the system could have booted, but I cannot know how the system
rendomly detects the external usb disk each time)

reboot: http://img542.imageshack.us/img542/198/kernelpanic2.png
This time I don't know what happened. Is only sda detected?

reboot: http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/8818/kernelpanic3.png
again, as for boot1.

No changes have been done between reboots.

I see that with 3.2.6 the external disk is detected as sdd (and this
is another issue I cannot
explain to myself, since the first sdX available is sdc not sdd),
while with 3.3.0, sometime
it attempts to detect as sdc...

I am really confused.

-- 
Flavio

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