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Re: [Xen-users] Dom0 searching for NFS root


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  • From: "Sugeng Widodo" <sugeng.widodo@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 11:12:19 +0700
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On 4/16/06, Simon <greminn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 4/15/06, Sugeng Widodo <sugeng.widodo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I've installed Xen 3.0.1 on my laptop and dom0 is boot normaly execpt
> > it's could not using X, i haven't trying to boot guest OS. my laptop
> > configuration is Toshiba Portege R150 with Debian Sarge on it.
> > And then I installed same version of Xen into our server with Debian
> > Sarge and Kernel 2.4. Booting dom0 is not success , xen always trying
> > look dor NFS root and then request for floopy , anybody experience
> > with this syndrome ?
> > In this server I use hde as the harddisk and boot partition is hde1
> > and root partition at hde10 , is this the problem for Xen ?
>
> I had this problem also when installing xen 3.0.x on a IBM xSeries
> server, the issue was that when i installed debian with the 2.4
> kernel, it saw the SATA hard drive as /dev/hdX, where as the 2.6 xen
> kernel saw it as /dev/sdX. Once i changed the grub menu.lst file from:
>
> module      /boot/xen-linux-2.6.12.6-xen root=/dev/hda1 ro
>
> to..
>
> module      /boot/xen-linux-2.6.12.6-xen root=/dev/sda1 ro
>
> it worked fine. Here is the full grub kernel options BTW:
>
> title       Xen 3.0.0 - Linux 2.6.12.6-xen
> kernel      /boot/xen-3.0.1.gz dom0_mem=262144
> module      /boot/xen-linux-2.6.12.6-xen root=/dev/sda1 ro
> module      /boot/xen-modules-2.6.12.6-xen
>
> Dont know if this is the same issue for you, but this is how i got it working.
>
> Simon
>


Yes I have exactly same problem and it solved like yours, thanks alot.
Now I must thinking the compatibility with original distro (debian)
which knowing the disk as /dev/hde because I have to modify the fstab
( I use multiple partition for my system).

Regards

--
Sugeng Widodo
blog : http://elangmaya.lensa.or.id/

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