Geza,

it can't find your root disk device... you need to configure Xen DomU,
so it matches disk, i.e. for example if you used to install into c0t0d0
disk, than exactly the same disk should be supplied to DomU...

On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 21:26 +0100, Gémes Géza wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> Sorry for asking that, but have anyone managed to get a working
> installation as a Dom0 or DomU.
> Here are my problems:
> 
> I've installed Nexenta 1.0rc3 under vmware-server (installing on a box
> with a SATA disk resulted on IO errors and hang after the reboot)
> If I've enbled the Dom0 boot option as described in
> http://www.nexenta.org/os/NexentaXenDom0 and tried to boot into the
> system restarts after successfully loading the kernel (at least it seems
> to load it), I've tried with both ZFS and UFS root filesystems.
> 
> My second test was trying to load Nexenta as a DomU in a
> Xen-3.2/Linux-2.6.18  Dom0 configuration, with the following configuration:
> name = 'nexenta'
> memory = '512'
> disk = [ 'file:/home/administrator/nexenta.raw,0,w' ]
> vif = [ 'mac=00:16:3e:00:00:ff, bridge=lanbr' ]
> kernel = '/home/administrator/platform/i86xpv/kernel/unix'
> ramdisk = '/home/administrator/platform/i86pc/boot_archive'
> extra = '/platform/i86xpv/kernel/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS'
> 
> 
> where the file nexenta.raw was obtained by converting a ZFS based vmware
> install to raw disk format by qemu-img.
> The kernel and boot_archive copied by scp from the vmware install.
> 
> Unfortunately all I was able to get is:
> Using config file "./nexenta.cfg".
> Started domain nexenta
>                       krtld: Unused kernel arguments: `$ZFS-BOOTFS'.
> v3.2-1 chgset 'unavailable'
> SunOS Release 5.11 Version NexentaOS_20080124 32-bit
> Loading Nexenta...
> 
> panic[cpu0]/thread=f502ae20: Cannot find /devices
> 
> f50556ec genunix:vfs_mountdevices+192 (0, 1, f502a590, 0, )
> f5055710 genunix:vfs_mountroot+1e5 (f4c00010, f5051538,)
> f5055720 genunix:main+af ()
> 
> syncing file systems... done
> skipping system dump - no dump device configured
> rebooting...
> 
> and the DomU shuts down.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Geza Gemes
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