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Re: [Xen-users] Newbie DomU problem

On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 09:44:37AM +0800, Tim Post wrote:
> Are you certain that shoudn't be a 'sda' not 'hda' ?  (Are you using
> SATA drives?)
> 
> Try altering the line to read:
> 
> disk = [ 'file:/home/poncho/gentoo/gentoo.2006-0.img,sda1,w' ] 
> 
> And likewise edit :
> 
> root=/dev/hda6 ro to root=/dev/sda1 ro
> 
> and see what happens. You may also consider giving the dom-u some swap
> space :) But that's some fun for after you get it to boot.
> 

I checked. It is an ata device. Checked the partition table. Any idea what a
W95 Ext'd partition is ? This is a Suse 10.1 system.
Brian

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders, total 78165360 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1              63    41013944    20506941   83  Linux
/dev/hda2   *    41013945    78156224    18571140    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5        41014008    42363404      674698+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6        42363468    56837969     7237251   83  Linux
/dev/hda7        56838033    78156224    10659096   83  Linux

Also fstab

dev/hda6            /                    reiserfs   acl,user_xattr
/dev/hda7            /home                reiserfs   acl,user_xattr
/dev/hda5            swap                 swap       defaults
proc                 /proc                proc       defaults
sysfs                /sys                 sysfs      noauto
debugfs              /sys/kernel/debug    debugfs    noauto
usbfs                /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      noauto
devpts               /dev/pts             devpts     mode=0620,gid=5
/dev/hda1            /mnt/data1               auto       noauto,user

> HTH
> 
> Tim
> 
> On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 11:01 +0930, Brian wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 08:00:15PM -0500, Jerry Amundson wrote:
> > > On Mon July 3 2006 19:20, Brian wrote:
> > > [snip]
> > > > Kernel command line:  root=/dev/hda6 ro  TERM=xterm
> > > 
> > > > Waiting for device /dev/hda6 to appear:
> > > > ..............................not found -- exiting to /bin/sh
> > > >
> > > > ------------------------------------
> > > > My config file
> > > >
> > > > isk = [ 'file:/home/poncho/gentoo/gentoo.2006-0.img,hda7,w' ]
> > > 
> > > the "hda7" might be at fault...
> > > [assuming the missing 'd' is a cut/paste issue...]
> > > 
> > > jerry
> > 
> > Hmmm, not sure what is going on. tried altering that line.
> > It is a new install of Suse 10.1.
> > Brian
> > 
> > netfront: Initialising virtual ethernet driver.
> > Loading xenblk
> > Registering block device major 3
> >  hda:Loading reiserfs
> > Waiting for device /dev/hda6 to appear:  unknown partition table
> > ata_id[459]: main: HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed for '/dev/.tmp-3-0'
> > ..............................not found -- exiting to /bin/sh
> > $ 
> > 
> > +++Grub config++++
> > 
> > ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: xen###
> > title XEN
> >     root (hd0,5)
> >     kernel /boot/xen.gz
> >     module /boot/vmlinuz-xen root=/dev/hda6 vga=0x31a    resume=/dev/hda5
> > splash=silent showopts
> >     module /boot/initrd-xen
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > 
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