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Re: [Xci-devel] dom0 can't find the LVM volumes

To: Jean Guyader <jean.guyader@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xci-devel] dom0 can't find the LVM volumes
From: Andreas Sommer <AndiDog@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:16:15 +0200
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Jean Guyader wrote:
2009/10/12 Andreas Sommer <AndiDog@xxxxxx>:
  
I seem to have installed XCI correctly, as GRUB 2 starts up correctly (and
is thus able to read the LVM volumes). When choosing "XenClient - Debug", I
get a black screen and the following serial output from the kernel (only
last few lines):

[...]
(XEN) PCI add device 00:07.1
[    5.658814] scsi0 : ata_piix
[    5.662493] scsi1 : ata_piix
[    5.664950] ata1: PATA max UDMA/33 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0x1050 irq
14
[    5.669041] ata2: PATA max UDMA/33 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0x1058 irq
15
[    5.856501] ata2.00: ATAPI: VMware Virtual IDE CDROM Drive, 00000001, max
UDMA/33
[    5.876581] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33
[    5.880579] scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM            NECVMWar VMware IDE CDR10
1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[    5.887773] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 1x/1x xa/form2 cdda tray
[    5.890023] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[    5.894313] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[    5.898252] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.14.0-ioctl (2008-04-23) initialised:
dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx
[    5.901753] TCP cubic registered
[    5.903076] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[    5.905711] RPC: Registered udp transport module.
[    5.908039] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
[    5.910043] 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[    5.912887] All bugs added by David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
[    5.915119] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
[    5.918187] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 1 devices found
[    5.921295] Freeing unused kernel memory: 260k freed
  Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...Waiting for device
to settle...ln: /sbin/mdev: File exists  Reading all physical volumes.  This
may take a while...Waiting for device to settle...ln: /sbin/mdev: File
exists  Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...Waiting for
device to settle...ln: /sbin/mdev: File exists  Reading all physical
volumes.  This may take a while...Try to mount /dev/mapper/xenclient-root
...mount: mounting /dev/mapper/xenclient-root on /root failed: No such file
or directoryswitch_root: bad newroot /root[   19.405270] Kernel panic - not
syncing: Attempted to kill init!

The LVM is found immediately by a Debian live CD, but XenClient's kernel
doesn't seem to find it... What could be the problem here?


    

Hi,

It's probably because we don't have disk driver for VmWare in our dom0
kernel config.

Jean

  

Yes I think you're right, as the kernel doesn't show any "sd: " messages. In the dom0 /lib/modules folder, there are neither the scsi nor the sd module.

Could you please give me a hint on how to change the dom0 kernel configuration (menuconfig) and rebuild it?
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