Re: [Xen-devel] Installation trouble on Dell Poweredge SC420

[Paul Pianta <pantz@xxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 14:30 -0500, Paul Pianta wrote:
> Hi people
> 
> I am new to Xen and having some trouble getting it up and running. I am
> trying to install it on a Dell Poweredge SC420 that has CentOS (RHEL3
> clone) installed.
> 
> The error that I am getting when I first try to boot into the Xen
> kernel, after having installed the binary and adding the necessary lines
> to grub.conf is :
> 
> ---snip---
> 
> md: Autodetecting RAID arrays
> md: autorun ...
> md: ... autorun DONE.
> Root-NFS: No NFS server available, giving up.
> VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy.
> VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER
> 
> ---machine waiting here---
> 
> 
> 
> The 'hardware' raid on the scsi card is not supported in linux so I have
> set up the machine with software raid. Here are some more details that
> might be useful ...
> 
> Here is the output of lspci for the scsi card that is in the machine ...
> 
> ---snip---
> 04:02.0 RAID bus controller: Adaptec ASC-39320(B) U320 w/HostRAID (rev
> 10)
> 04:02.1 RAID bus controller: Adaptec ASC-39320(B) U320 w/HostRAID (rev
> 10)
> ---snip---
> 
> The driver for this card is the aic79xx.o and I see that it is compiled
> into the Xen kernel.
> 
> 
> Does anyone have any idea what is happening and how I might get Xen
> installed?
> 
> thanks

oops forgot to add my grub.conf - so here it is ...

default=2
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Xen 2.0 / XenLinux 2.6.9
        kernel /xen.gz dom0_mem=131072
        module /vmlinuz-2.6.9-xen0 ro root=/dev/md2
title CentOS (2.4.21-20.0.1.EL)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-20.0.1.EL ro root=/dev/md2
        initrd /initrd-2.4.21-20.0.1.EL.img
title CentOS (2.4.21-20.0.1.ELsmp)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-20.0.1.ELsmp ro root=/dev/md2
        initrd /initrd-2.4.21-20.0.1.ELsmp.img
title CentOS release 3.3 (2.4.21-20.EL.c0smp)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-20.EL.c0smp ro root=/dev/md2
        initrd /initrd-2.4.21-20.EL.c0smp.img
title CentOS release 3.3-up (2.4.21-20.EL.c0)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-20.EL.c0 ro root=/dev/md2
        initrd /initrd-2.4.21-20.EL.c0.img


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