https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487932 User jdouglas@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487932#c14 Jason Douglas <jdouglas@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment #282099|0 |1 is obsolete| | --- Comment #14 from Jason Douglas <jdouglas@novell.com> 2009-03-25 18:28:15 MST --- Created an attachment (id=282101) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=282101) boot messages from failed boot with SLES 11 kernel/initrd I just figured out what the problem was with the SLES 11 kernel/initrd. Because output is set by default to go the framebuffer, I wasn't getting all of the kernel messages, so I added xencons=tty as a kernel parameter, and I now get the attached output when booting to the SLES 11 kernel. The key section is this: <snip> Boot logging started on /dev/tty1(/dev/console) at Thu Mar 26 00:08:34 2009 Waiting for device /dev/xvda2 to appear: ..............................Could not find /dev/xvda2. Want me to fall back to /dev/xvda2? (Y/n) </snip> The initrd that I copied from SLES 11 was still expecting root to be located on xvda, but this config file specifies the disk as sda. When I did the same thing with the original openSUSE 11.1 kernel, I got a few additional lines of output. Here they are in context: <snip> Write protecting the kernel text: 2192k Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 1544k Loading KIWI VMX Boot-System... ------------------------------- Creating device nodes with udev Boot logging started on /dev/tty1(/dev/console) at Thu Mar 26 00:20:00 2009 ===> Boot-Logging enabled on /dev/tty3 ===> Kernel logging enabled on: /dev/tty4 ===> Including required kernel modules... Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver SCSI subsystem initialized st: Version 20080504, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256 ===> Searching for boot device... md: stopping all md devices. xen console-0: xenbus_dev_shutdown: device/console/0: Initialising != Connected, skipping xen vif-0: xenbus_dev_shutdown: device/vif/0: Initialising != Connected, skipping xen vbd-2048: xenbus_dev_shutdown: device/vbd/2048: Initialising != Connected, skipping Restarting system. </snip> The long pause occurs while the system is "===> Searching for boot device...". -- 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.