Re: [Xen-devel] Xen and ReiserFS

[David F Barrera <dfbp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

OK. Mea culpa. I found out the problem was I had 'acpi=off' as a kernel
parameters in my grub entry for Xen, due to an earlier problem where it
was suggested to try it. Thanks for the responses.

On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 08:04 -0500, David F Barrera wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 16:18 -0500, Andrew Theurer wrote:
> > On Thursday 09 June 2005 16:03, David F Barrera wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 15:58 -0500, Paul Larson wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 15:51 -0500, David F Barrera wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 21:23 +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
> > > > > > On 9 Jun 2005, at 21:13, David F Barrera wrote:
> > > > > > > I am unable to boot Dom0 on a machine with Reiser file
> > > > > > > systems. Reiser support is built into the xen0 kernel. I have
> > > > > > > similar setup with ext3 file systems working just fine, so I
> > > > > > > don't think it is a setup problem. I have tried booting with
> > > > > > > and without and initrd file, booting with the original Linux
> > > > > > > distro initrd file, etc, but nothing seems to work. I recall
> > > > > > > seeing a thread about ReiserFS on this list some time ago,
> > > > > > > but I don't remember what the resolution was. Any ideas would
> > > > > > > be appreciated.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The boot log hasn't got as far as looking at the rootfs when
> > > > > > the problems start. It looks like things go bad as soon as the
> > > > > > SCSI driver starts to run. Does the same kernel work on the
> > > > > > same machine if you point it at an ext3 system?
> > > > >
> > > > > I have two identical machines with essentially the same setup,
> > > > > except one has ext3 and the other has Reiser file systems. The
> > > > > same kernel build works on the one that has ext3.
> > > >
> > > > ReiserFS is working fine on my box, with both the current bitkeeper
> > > > tree and with last nights unstable build.  From your boot log
> > > > though, it looks like it's breaking down in the mpt scsi driver
> > > > pretty badly.  Does the other working machine also use this driver?
> > >
> > > Yes. They are identical machines.
> > 
> > Have you tried ext3 on the system which shows problems with reiserfs?  
> > If these are hot swap disks, can you swap the disks witht he two 
> > systems ans see what happens?  It really looks like the "broken" one 
> > has a scsi HW related issue.
> I read what you are saying, but the machine works fine with the distro
> kernel. So, I don't believe it is a HW related issue.
> > 
> > -Andrew
> > 
> 
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Regards,

David F Barrera
Linux Technology Center
Systems and Technology Group, IBM

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