Re: [Xen-users] Booting Xen

["Dirk H. Schulz" <dirk.schulz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jacek,

Jacek Aviles schrieb:

> Yes, I would appriciate any help with this.  I dont really have much
> experience with compiling kernels or adding drivers to linux.  And I'm
> not really sure where I can get these files.  Thanks.
>  
What kind of drive is your root partition on? SCSI, IDE, SATA? And what 
controler is used?
Dirk

> Jake Aviles
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dirk H. Schulz" <dirk.schulz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tuesday, August 2, 2005 5:51 am
> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Booting Xen
>
>  
>
> > Jacek Aviles schrieb:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > When I try to boot xen, I get this error:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > >
> > > > 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
> > > >   
> > > >
> > > >        
> > Hi Jacek,
> >
> > I have also stumbled on this for some time. Here might be the 
> > solution: 
> > The xen0 kernel you use does not have the necessary device driver 
> > to 
> > access your root partition.
> > In my case I had to recompile with support for a symbios logic SCSI 
> > controller.
> > The message above is deluting because the kernel tries to find an 
> > nfs 
> > server if the root file system is not accessible.
> > If you need help with finding and compiling the needed device 
> > driver 
> > into the kernel, just ask.
> > Dirk
> >
> >    

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