Re: [Xen-users] Boot problem with a "scsi" disk

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

Hi Grabriele,

Gabriele Cardosi schrieb:

> Hello.
> I would like to use Xen (or, at least, to see how it works) but I cannot boot 
> it. I have an old laptop with a USB 1.0 and a pcmcia card with 2 USB2.0 ports 
> on it, and a SuSE 9.3 I cannot delete my windows from the primary hd, so I 
> have the /boot on 
> it (/dev/hda2) and the root on the external hard disk (/dev/sda5) which is 
> connected to the laptop throug the pcmcia card. I had to make an initrd to 
> boot it with the following modules: yenta_socket, pcmcia, ehci-hcd, ohci.hcd, 
> uhci-hcd, scsi_mod, sd_mod, usb-storage, piix, and reiserfs. And it works for 
> my "normal" SuSE 9.3.
> But, when I try to start "xen", I got the following scenarios:
> if I connect the external hard disk to the pcmcia, the system doesn't see it 
> at all;
> if I connect the external hard disk to the usb 1.0, the system see it but end 
> up saying ". not found... (etc..)"; 
That might be the interesting part. Is it complaining about the root 
volume not being found? Then it could be that a certain hardware driver 
is missing and you have to compile the kernel anew.
Please provide this error message more completely.

Dirk

> sometimes I also got an error about 
> uhci_hcd going down for some reason ("something bad happened"); if I try with 
> the boot option "physdev_dom0_hide=(00:07.02)", the system hang up without 
> seeing my hard disk.
>  
Sounds like a problem with your hardware (unstable electrical  
contacts?) or instability of a driver module. How does it work with 
SuSEs standard kernel?
Dirk


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