Couldn't go to sleep found out the device major 102 and minor 17
but with disk = [ 'file:/home/administrator/nexenta.raw,10217,w' ] nexenta still fails to boot. Maybe I'm stupid, or is simply too late. Goodnight to all. Cheers Geza > 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 > _______________________________________________ gnusol-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/gnusol-users
