Update to my own post DomU booting problems are the same with an UFS root filesystem :-(
> 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 > _______________________________________________ > gnusol-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/gnusol-users > _______________________________________________ gnusol-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/gnusol-users
