[Xen-users] Re: [Xen-devel] [Xen-usersl] Xen 2.6.18.8 Kernel tree on Ubuntu Kamic

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 11:14:40AM +0530, Tej wrote:
> All,
> 
> Recently I have tried Xen 3.4.1 (even xen-unstable.hg) and Linux
> 2.6.18.8 tree on new ubuntyu karmic koala.
> I have tried this combination on different machine AMD64, intel i386,
> but every time I boot process is stop at
> 
> "Waiting for root file system" , After some time the promt drops to
> initramfs shell.

Well.. it either means the driver for your SATA controller is not
loaded, the driver is misbehaving or the driver is too old to actually
support the controller.

> I am sure the problem is not due to NOT selecting prooper SATA
> controller or something ike that.....
> 

You should enable/configure serial console and capture the full xen and
dom0 kernel boot logs so we can see what's wrong..

that's the easiest way to troubleshoot the problem.

> I have tried similar hardware configuration with Xen on Jaunty it
> works without any problem.
> I am just wondering why it is refusing to work on Karmic, possible reasons.
> 1. gcc 4.4
> 2. make version
> 3. your thoughts please????
> 
> I have tried pvops kernel, it works but I need 2.6.18.8 tree so any 
> thoughts???
> 

Any particular reason for that?

Have you considered the novell/opensuse forward-ported 2.6.18 patches for 
2.6.3x?

http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenDom0Kernels

-- Pasi


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