https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463829 User pgnet.trash@gmail.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463829#c24 --- Comment #24 from pgnet _ <pgnet.trash@gmail.com> 2009-01-15 07:44:27 MST --- Created an attachment (id=265365) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=265365) console output for kernel-xen boot, with iommu=force changing, - showopts elevator=cfq iommu=soft irqpoll mem=4G \ + showopts elevator=cfq iommu=force irqpoll \ then booting, console shows, ... -> Your BIOS doesn't leave a aperture memory hole Please enable the IOMMU option in the BIOS setup This costs you 64 MB of RAM Mapping aperture over 65536 KB of RAM @ 20000000 ... which is the reason I was told, @ MSI, to enable iommu-soft in the first place, since, according to MSI, my mobo does NOT support iommeu ... but I also now see, ... PCI-DMA: Disabling AGP. PCI-DMA: aperture base @ 20000000 size 65536 KB PCI-DMA: using GART IOMMU. PCI-DMA: Reserving 64MB of IOMMU area in the AGP aperture ... which looks, promising, and ... boot completes. uname -a Linux server 2.6.27.7-9-default #1 SMP 2008-12-04 18:10:04 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux checking, the attached disks are available! fdisk -l| grep sd | grep autodetect /dev/sda1 2 78326 629145562+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda2 78327 121601 347606437+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb1 2 78326 629145562+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb2 78327 121601 347606437+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdc1 2 20 152617+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdc2 21 85 522112+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdc3 86 1651 12578895 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdc4 1652 30401 230934375 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdd1 * 2 20 152617+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdd2 21 85 522112+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdd3 86 1651 12578895 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdd4 1652 30401 230934375 fd Linux raid autodetect similarly changing for kernel-xen boot, - showopts splash=silent selinux=0 elevator=cfq iommu=soft irqpoll mem=4G \ - showopts splash=silent selinux=0 elevator=cfq iommu=force irqpoll \ then on reboot i see some xen-specific messaging @ console (attachment), but the system completely boots, uname -a Linux server 2.6.27.7-9-xen #1 SMP 2008-12-04 18:10:04 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux but the attached drives are missing again, fdisk -l| grep sd | grep autodetect /dev/sda1 2 20 152617+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda2 21 85 522112+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda3 86 1651 12578895 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda4 1652 30401 230934375 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb1 * 2 20 152617+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb2 21 85 522112+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb3 86 1651 12578895 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb4 1652 30401 230934375 fd Linux raid autodetect nonetheless, progress, it seems ... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.