WARNING - OLD ARCHIVES

This is an archived copy of the Xen.org mailing list, which we have preserved to ensure that existing links to archives are not broken. The live archive, which contains the latest emails, can be found at http://lists.xen.org/
   
 
 
Xen 
 
Home Products Support Community News
 
   
 

xen-users

Re: [Xen-users] Full Virtualised Guest not booting with waiting for sda

To: peter.chiu@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Full Virtualised Guest not booting with waiting for sda2 to appear error
From: "Fajar A. Nugraha" <fajar@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:22:07 +0700
Cc: Xen User-List <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Delivery-date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:25:27 -0700
Envelope-to: www-data@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <EB1E7CB92F5B35459E0B926D2A614DB60B1CA081@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
List-help: <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=help>
List-id: Xen user discussion <xen-users.lists.xensource.com>
List-post: <mailto:xen-users@lists.xensource.com>
List-subscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-users>, <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=subscribe>
List-unsubscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-users>, <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=unsubscribe>
References: <4BAA3B810200009900049C91@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <EB1E7CB92F5B35459E0B926D2A614DB60B1CA081@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 3:29 PM,  <peter.chiu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks, Nick, for your response.
>
> That is what I have done actually, as described in my message:
>> During the boot up sequence, I can enter into the boot OS selection
>> menu, select the boot entry, and edit the root device from /dev/sda2
> to
>> /dev/hda2
>
> But no good still, it then said waiting for /dev/hda2 and then timed
> out, same symptom really.

does the original server use scsi disk?
If yes, it might be the case that the ide drivers was not loaded. Try
these commands when it times out and enter recover shell:

cat /proc/partitions
dmesg | grep hda
dmesg | grep sda
lsmod | grep piix

-- 
Fajar

_______________________________________________
Xen-users mailing list
Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>