Xen users - Jun 2006 - Failed to boot suse 10.1(domain 0) with IBM xSeries 330

Hi , 

I have setup xen on a number of different machines already; however, I 
couldn''t get xSeries 330 working with Xen.

When it boots up, it says "Waiting for device /dev/sda1 .... device not 
found" and then return a shell prompt. I have looked up this error on the 
mailing list. I found that the error is potentially caused SCSI driver and 
it can be resolved this problem by customizing kernel, so I downloaded the 
source, setup required tools (like gcc 3.3.6) ... and recompile the     
source. The compilation went well (at least, it did not issue any compile 
error at the end of compilation), but the problem still remain unsolve. 
Does anyone know how to solve this problem? The following steps are what I 
have performed during compilation (roughly):

  download and unzip the file
  go to the uncompressed xensource directory ( xen-3.0.2-2/ )
  make world
  make install  
  make linux-2.6-xen-menu CONFIGMODE=menuconfig
  Include SCSI support directly rather than module
  make linux-2.6-xen-build
  make linux-2.6-xen-install
  epmod 2.6.16-xen
  mkinitrd                    

cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Wed Jun  7 11:28:14 PDT 2006

color white/blue black/light-gray
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/message

###Don''t change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name:
linux###

title SUSE Linux 10.1
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 vga=0x317    acpi=off   
splash=silent showopts
    initrd /boot/initrd

###Don''t change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: xen###

title XEN
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /boot/xen.gz
    module /boot/vmlinuz-xen root=/dev/sda1 vga=0x317    acpi=off   
splash=silent showopts
    module /boot/initrd-xen

vmlinuz-xen and initrd-xen are symbolic link to the really kernel and 
inital ram disk

Thanks,
   Daniel



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On Wednesday 14 June 2006 08:25, yu dan wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> I have setup xen on a number of different machines already; however, I
> couldn''t get xSeries 330 working with Xen.
>
> When it boots up, it says "Waiting for device /dev/sda1 .... device
not
> found" and then return a shell prompt. 
Is the disk correctly reported as sda1 during the installation process?
I''d
say this is less of a XEN specific error and closer to something that has 
gone wrong with the actual SUSE 10.1 installation. I remember problems with 
SLES 9 with newer SATA hardware being picked up as hda in the install, but 
then sda during the actual boot of the system, which leads to obvious errors 
in terms of referring to the first hard disk.
> I have looked up this error on the 
> mailing list. I found that the error is potentially caused SCSI driver and
> it can be resolved this problem by customizing kernel, so I downloaded the
> source, setup required tools (like gcc 3.3.6) ... and recompile the
> source. The compilation went well (at least, it did not issue any compile
> error at the end of compilation), but the problem still remain unsolve.
> Does anyone know how to solve this problem? The following steps are what I
> have performed during compilation (roughly):
>
I''d set XEN aside for the time being and start thinking about getting a
vanilla installation to boot.

Regards,
Jon

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Jonathan Ervine wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 June 2006 08:25, yu dan wrote:
>   
>> Hi ,
>>
>> I have setup xen on a number of different machines already; however, I
>> couldn''t get xSeries 330 working with Xen.
>>
>> When it boots up, it says "Waiting for device /dev/sda1 ....
device not
>> found" and then return a shell prompt. 
>>     
>
> Is the disk correctly reported as sda1 during the installation process?
I''d
> say this is less of a XEN specific error and closer to something that has 
> gone wrong with the actual SUSE 10.1 installation. I remember problems with
> SLES 9 with newer SATA hardware being picked up as hda in the install, but 
> then sda during the actual boot of the system, which leads to obvious
errors
> in terms of referring to the first hard disk.
>
>   
>> I have looked up this error on the 
>> mailing list. I found that the error is potentially caused SCSI driver
and
>> it can be resolved this problem by customizing kernel, so I downloaded
the
>> source, setup required tools (like gcc 3.3.6) ... and recompile the
>> source. The compilation went well (at least, it did not issue any
compile
>> error at the end of compilation), but the problem still remain unsolve.
>> Does anyone know how to solve this problem? The following steps are
what I
>> have performed during compilation (roughly):
>>
>>     
Try it with these options on:
CONFIG_SCSI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
CONFIG_FUSION=y
CONFIG_FUSION_SPI=y
>
> I''d set XEN aside for the time being and start thinking about
getting a
> vanilla installation to boot.
>
> Regards,
> Jon
>
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Regards,

David F Barrera
Linux Technology Center
Systems and Technology Group, IBM

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On Friday 16 June 2006 17:22, Jonathan Ervine wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 June 2006 08:25, yu dan wrote:
> > Hi ,
> >
> > I have setup xen on a number of different machines already; however, I
> > couldn''t get xSeries 330 working with Xen.
> >
> > When it boots up, it says "Waiting for device /dev/sda1 ....
device not
> > found" and then return a shell prompt.
>
> Is the disk correctly reported as sda1 during the installation process?
I''d
> say this is less of a XEN specific error and closer to something that has
> gone wrong with the actual SUSE 10.1 installation. 
I would agree with this, but would also suggest that using the current 
SUSE/Novell rpms (from forge.novell.com) would be a more promising 
way of getting this stuff to work than the method outined in the original 
post.

The problems are unlikely to be directly hardware-related.  

The error "Waiting for device..." typically means that
there''s something wrong
with the initrd (which on SUSE contains encoded information about the root 
partition).

-- 
Roger Whittaker
Primary  Support Engineer
rwhittaker@novell.com
01344 326116
07802 357081

Novell, Inc.
Software for the Open Enterprise
http://www.novell.com/open

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Thank you !! It works after a vanilla  installation. yeah!!

Daniel 

>------------------------------
>
>Message: 
5
>Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 17:22:58 +0100
>From: Jonathan Ervine 

>Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Failed to boot 
suse 10.1(domain 0) with IBM
> xSeries 330
>To: 
xen-users@lists.xensource.com
>Message-ID: 
<200606161722.58622.jervine@novell.com>
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text/plain;  charset="big5"
>
>On Wednesday 14 June 
2006 08:25, yu dan wrote:
> > Hi ,
> >
> > I 
have setup xen on a number of different machines already; however, 
I
> > couldn''t get xSeries 330 working with Xen.
> 
>
> > When it boots up, it says "Waiting for device /dev/sda1 
.... device not
> > found" and then return a shell 
prompt.
>
>Is the disk correctly reported as sda1 during the 
installation process? I''d
>say this is less of a XEN specific error 
and closer to something that has
>gone wrong with the actual SUSE 
10.1 installation. I remember problems with
>SLES 9 with newer SATA 
hardware being picked up as hda in the install, but
>then sda during 
the actual boot of the system, which leads to obvious errors
>in 
terms of referring to the first hard disk.
>
> > I have 
looked up this error on the
> > mailing list. I found that the 
error is potentially caused SCSI driver and
> > it can be resolved 
this problem by customizing kernel, so I downloaded the
> > 
source, setup required tools (like gcc 3.3.6) ... and recompile the
> 
> source. The compilation went well (at least, it did not issue any 
compile
> > error at the end of compilation), but the problem 
still remain unsolve.
> > Does anyone know how to solve this 
problem? The following steps are what I
> > have performed during 
compilation (roughly):
> >
>
>I''d set XEN aside for 
the time being and start thinking about getting a
>vanilla 
installation to 
boot.
>
>Regards,
>Jon
>
>
>
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