Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3605 mails)

["Justin Mahood" <jbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey all,

 

I'm running SLES9 on a Dell Poweredge2850.  I have 6 SCSI hard disks
running RAID 10 off from the onboard RAID controller.  I'm trying to run
xen 3.0 on this machine.  I installed the xen binaries seemingly without
any issues, but whenever I try to boot the Xen kernel, I get a kernel
panic and the system immediately reboots.  

 

I don't have a log of the failure text, but the panic deals with being
unable to find the root path that I've set, /dev/sda1.  My initial guess
is that this is an initrd issue because of the SCSI/MEGARAID controller.
I'm using the initrd packaged with the xen binaries for SLESsp2.  I also
tried booting with the regular SLES initrd and got the same panic.  

 

If it is an initrd issue, how do I add specific modules to the existing
xen initrd?  I've tried using mkintird, but I can seemingly never get it
to work right.  

 

I'm fairly desperate, so any advice you can give me would be fantastic.


I tried posting on the xen lists but got nowhere.

 

Thanks,

 

Justin Mahood