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Re: [Xen-devel] New Intel Sata Controller (ICH9 family) Support in Xen 3

To: "Kurt Hackel" <kurt.hackel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] New Intel Sata Controller (ICH9 family) Support in Xen 3.1
From: "Tej Parkash" <bewith.tej@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 18:30:37 +0530
Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On 1/6/08, Kurt Hackel <kurt.hackel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 09:29:37PM +0000, Mark Williamson wrote:
> > > I got new Intel VT enabled hardware recently. As i am installing XEN
> > > 3.1 over it gives me dom0 booting issues. After i solved lot many
> > > issue i got stuck up with error saying "Begin: waiting for root
> > > filesystem"
> > >
> > > I have downloaded the vanilla Linux 2.6.18 and installed the same. It
> > > is also stucking with same error "waiting for root filesystem".  How
> > > ever Linux 2.6.22 booting perfectly. So the conclusion says there is
> > > some driver issue which is not supported by Linux 2.6.18.
> > >
> > > After Some investigation i found that the New SATA controller by Intel
> > > is not support in Linux 2.6.18, Hence XEN is also stucking with it.
> > > Since i need to enable the xen over this machine , so is there any
> > > work around for the same problem in XEN 3.1 (other then back porting
> > > the relevant driver)
> >
> > I guess another option would be to temporarily stick a compatible SATA
> card
> > into the machine but I understand that wouldn't be ideal!
> >
> > If you were to use a Linux distro with Xen included then they have often
> > forward ported Xen support to newer kernels.  Fedora and OpenSUSE do this,
> > for instance.  Also RHEL / CentOS contain backported drivers from newer
> > kernels, so it's possible that one of them would work on your system.
> Ubuntu
> > contains Xen-enabled kernels newer than 2.6.18 also, but I've heard
> varying
> > things about the quality of Ubuntu's own Xen packages - though I haven't
> > tried them myself.
>
> If you go to http://edelivery.oracle.com/linux and pull down the source
> cd for Oracle VM Server, you should find a pair of patches in the kernel
> srpm that are exactly what you need to apply.  One is something like
> "intel-e1000" and the other "intel-ich9".  Should apply cleanly.  The
> distro is free to use if you'd rather do that.

i will check this solution. After this i will came back to you with status.
thanks for your suggestion.

>
> Thanks
> kurt
>
> --
>

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