Hi,
If I remember correctly, booting from scsi disks is not yet supported
for HVM domains. Try using 'hda' instead of 'sda'.
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Yosuke
Сергей Лукашевич wrote:
> Just successfully installed SLES9.3-32bit as file-backended HVM domU.
>
> Everything went OK, the distributive partitioned its "harddisk" into root and
> swap OK, have its grub installed into sda boot sector, but I could not make
> to boot no one single first time after installation. Every domU boot gives
> the following screen for a short time and dies:
>
>
>
> Booting from Hard Disk...
>
> Boot from Hard Disk failed: could not read the boot disk
>
> FATAL: No bootable device.
>
>
>
> I beleive this it QEMU output, is not it?
>
> So when I place a Knopix (bootable linux) CD image into domUs cdrom, my domU
> does recognise the /dev/sda disk just fine: I could run even fdisk, fsck, and
> mount.
>
>
>
> here is the domU config file I used:
>
>
>
> --------------------------------------------
>
> import os, re
>
> arch = os.uname()[4]
>
> if re.search('64', arch):
>
> arch_libdir = 'lib64'
>
> else:
>
> arch_libdir = 'lib'
>
>
>
> kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"
>
> builder='hvm'
>
> memory = 512
>
> vcpus=2
>
> name = "sles9.3-32bit"
>
> vif = [ 'type=ioemu, mac=aa:a0:01:ad:a0:a0, bridge=xenbr0' ]
>
> disk=['file:/IMG/sles9.3-32bit.disk,sda,w']
>
> #disk=['file:/IMG/sles9.3-32bit.disk,sda,w','file:/ISO/Knoppix-5.0.1.iso,hdc:cdrom,r']
>
> device_model = '/usr/' + arch_libdir + '/xen/bin/qemu-dm'
>
> #boot="d"
>
> sdl=1
>
> vnc=0
>
> vncunused=1
>
> vncconsole=0
>
> stdvga=0
>
> --------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> I am not a novice in Linux and do not suspect I made a mistake installing it
> for some 1000th time. So why disk not recognised by XEN? Could not find an
> answer so far.
>
>
>
> Environment: XEN3.1, dom0 runs SLES9.3-64bit, SUN X4600 server.
>
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