Thanks, then I need to look at: disk = [ 'file:/home/administrator/nexenta.raw,0,w' ]
and try to provide the same device number the installation has found. I will try that tomorrow (localtime=23:22) Geza > 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
