Re: [Xen-devel] Problem to boot Xenolinux.

[James Scott <jamesscott@xxxxxxx>]

If the LSI logic adaptor you're referring to is the "Fusion MPT" 
adaptor, then there is a patch in the works (by Stephen Evanchik) which 
handles it.  Have a look at http://www.clarkson.edu/~evanchsa/xen/ for 
the current patch, which is working but is still under testing (there 
seem to be a few performance issues, but no stability issues), and will 
be submitted to the unstable tree in due course.
Ta
James


Guillaume Belrose wrote:

> Hi, 
>
> I am trying to install Xen/Xenolinux v1.1 on my workstation which has 2
> SCSI disks. The first disk has WinXP installed, and the second disk has
> Redhat 8.0. I copied the images into /boot and modified grub.conf
> accordingly:
>
> title Xen / XenoLinux 2.4.22
>         root (hd1,0)
>         kernel /xen.gz dom0_mem=131072 ser_baud=115200 noht noreboot
>         module /xenolinux.gz root=/dev/sdb2 ro console=tty0
>
> When I reboot the machine and select Xen, I have the following error
> message:
>
> root_device_name=sdb2
> kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8, errno=2
> VFS: Cannot open root device "sdb2" or 08:12
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:12
>
> Xen seems to start but Xenolinux does not. My guess is that my SCSI
> adapter is not recognized by XEN. My machine uses the following adapter:
> LSI Logic. If it is the case, do you know how I could include support
> for this adapter in Xen?
>
> I was lucky and could install Xen on another machine and it works fine
> (although this time the network card is not recognised). The application
> I've tried is even faster when running on Xen that on the native Linux
> :-)
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> Guillaume Belrose.
>
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