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? waiting for device /dev/sda7 to appear............not found exiting to /bin/sh $ Regards, Pradeep _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
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? waiting for device /dev/sda7 to appear............not found exiting to /bin/sh $ Regards, Pradeep _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
(reposted to xen-users, as xen-users is the appropriate forum for this level of question.) 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> 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? 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) (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 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. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
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 linesthis 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, findingyour>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/CentOSI 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 _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
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_initrdand 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 yourgrub lines this is my mkinitrd line. mk_initrd -k /boot/vmlinuz-2.6-xen -i /boot/initrd-2.6-xen these are my grub lines # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Wed Sep 20 09:05:19 UTC 2006 color white/blue black/light-gray default timeout 8 gfxmenu (hd0,5)/message ###Don''t change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 root (hd0,5) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda7 vga=0x31a resume=/dev/sda8 splash=silent showopts initrd /initrd ###Don''t change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: xen### title XEN root (hd0,5) kernel /xen.gz module /vmlinuz-2.6-xen root=/dev/sda7 vga=0x31a resume=/dev/sda8 splash=silent showopts module /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 foryour 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 errorsw/ 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 orslackware, I usually just compile everything I need to boot into the kernel and run without initrd. Regards pradeepkumar unisys _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users