Re: [Xen-devel] Cannot open root device for dom0

[stevegt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Okay, I've done another pull and rebuilt xenolinux 1.2 with both gcc
2.95.4 and gcc 3.0.  Both of these boot dom0 and find hda just fine.
The only thing that's changed is the code changed by the pull.

(Note that I'm talking about xenolinux only here -- I'm still using the
gcc 3.0 Xen -- haven't tried Xen with gcc 2.95 since I hit those parsing
errors on Thursday.)

On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 11:32:30AM +0000, Steven Hand wrote:
> >> Does anyone know why the (failed) modprobe attempt is happening at all,
> >> since the ext3 driver is built in?
> >
> >It's actually the xenolinux block device driver that it's trying
> >to modprobe.
> 
> Indeed; in more detail, the modprobe happened because major device 3 (ide0) 
> was not registered with the blkdev layer; and this happened because 
> something was screwed in the xenolinux 'probe' (where at start of day it
> asks Xen about what devices exist, etc). Given that this code has all just
> been rewritten (in Xen) to use red-black trees in place of a hash table so
> that order is deterministic, I reckon that's the culprit. 

I suspect this was in fact the culprit -- possibly I grabbed the code
when it was in an intermediate state (Thursday evening Pacific time).
 
> Anyway, that's just for info -- I believe it's fixed now, right?

We can call this fixed.  Thanks everyone for your help.  

Steve
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