Just successfully installed SLES9.3-32bit as file-backended HVM domU.
Everything went OK, the distributive partitioned its "harddisk" into root and
swap OK, have its grub installed into sda boot sector, but I could not make to
boot no one single first time after installation. Every domU boot gives the
following screen for a short time and dies:
Booting from Hard Disk...
Boot from Hard Disk failed: could not read the boot disk
FATAL: No bootable device.
I beleive this it QEMU output, is not it?
So when I place a Knopix (bootable linux) CD image into domUs cdrom, my domU
does recognise the /dev/sda disk just fine: I could run even fdisk, fsck, and
mount.
here is the domU config file I used:
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import os, re
arch = os.uname()[4]
if re.search('64', arch):
arch_libdir = 'lib64'
else:
arch_libdir = 'lib'
kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"
builder='hvm'
memory = 512
vcpus=2
name = "sles9.3-32bit"
vif = [ 'type=ioemu, mac=aa:a0:01:ad:a0:a0, bridge=xenbr0' ]
disk=['file:/IMG/sles9.3-32bit.disk,sda,w']
#disk=['file:/IMG/sles9.3-32bit.disk,sda,w','file:/ISO/Knoppix-5.0.1.iso,hdc:cdrom,r']
device_model = '/usr/' + arch_libdir + '/xen/bin/qemu-dm'
#boot="d"
sdl=1
vnc=0
vncunused=1
vncconsole=0
stdvga=0
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I am not a novice in Linux and do not suspect I made a mistake installing it
for some 1000th time. So why disk not recognised by XEN? Could not find an
answer so far.
Environment: XEN3.1, dom0 runs SLES9.3-64bit, SUN X4600 server.
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