On Thu, 30 Nov 2006,
Surisetty, Pradeep Kumar wrote:
> Hello
>
> iam trying to build
Xen.
>
> I downloaded xen
unstable tar ball and compiled it. I used mk_initrd
>and created the initird.
I booted my newly built Xen but booting stops
>with the following
messages and keyboard doesn't work. Can you give me
>pointers to solving
this?
>do you mean mkinitrd?
please post the mkinitrd line also post your
>grub lines
this is my mkinitrd line.
mk_initrd -k /boot/vmlinuz-2.6-xen -i /boot/initrd-2.6-xen
> waiting for device
/dev/sda7 to appear............not found exiting to
> /bin/sh $
> What kind of disk are
you using? SCSI? are you attempting to boot
> from
> /dev/sda7?
I am using SCSI.
>Most likely the problem
is that you did not include the drivers for
>your
>disks in the kernel or
initrd. mkinitrd --with=modulename where
>modulename is the module
for your disk, I believe, is one way to solve
>the
>problem. Another is to
re-compile your kernel with CONFIG_MODULE=Y (*
>in
>menuconfig)
This CONFIG_MODULE is already set to Y.
>(oftentimes I find it is
easier to troubleshoot these sorts of errors
>w/a serial console... if
you could paste the boot messages, finding your
>problem would be
trivial- with the information you are giving me, I'm
>largely guessing.)
>also, you should mention
what distro/version you are using.
>RHEL/CentOS
I am using SLES10 GMC.
doesn't like to boot at all
without an initrd, whereas on debian or
slackware, I usually just
compile everything I need to boot into the
kernel and run without
initrd.
Regards
Pradeep Kumar
