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Re: [Xen-users] Newbie DomU problem

On Tue July 4 2006 05:06, Brian wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 09:44:37AM +0800, Tim Post wrote:
> > Are you certain that shoudn't be a 'sda' not 'hda' ?  (Are you
> > using SATA drives?)
> >
> > Try altering the line to read:
> >
> > disk = [ 'file:/home/poncho/gentoo/gentoo.2006-0.img,sda1,w' ]
> >
> > And likewise edit :
> >
> > root=/dev/hda6 ro to root=/dev/sda1 ro
> >
> > and see what happens. You may also consider giving the dom-u some
> > swap space :) But that's some fun for after you get it to boot.
>
> I checked. It is an ata device. Checked the partition table. Any idea
> what a W95 Ext'd partition is ? This is a Suse 10.1 system.
> Brian

Did to make the suggested changes and try it?
The W95 Ext'd is just a sort of place holder for the higher partitions 
after it.

> Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders, total 78165360 sectors
> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1              63    41013944    20506941   83  Linux
> /dev/hda2   *    41013945    78156224    18571140    f  W95 Ext'd
> (LBA) /dev/hda5        41014008    42363404      674698+  82  Linux
> swap / Solaris /dev/hda6        42363468    56837969     7237251   83
>  Linux /dev/hda7        56838033    78156224    10659096   83  Linux
>
> Also fstab
>
> dev/hda6            /                    reiserfs   acl,user_xattr
> /dev/hda7            /home                reiserfs   acl,user_xattr
> /dev/hda5            swap                 swap       defaults
> proc                 /proc                proc       defaults
> sysfs                /sys                 sysfs      noauto
> debugfs              /sys/kernel/debug    debugfs    noauto
> usbfs                /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      noauto
> devpts               /dev/pts             devpts     mode=0620,gid=5
> /dev/hda1            /mnt/data1               auto       noauto,user

Those are from dom0 - the domU has no concept of any of it...

jerry

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