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Re: Fwd: Re: [Xen-devel] Kernel 2.6.31.6 pv_ops freeze on start, No avai

To: Michal Novotny <minovotn@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [Xen-devel] Kernel 2.6.31.6 pv_ops freeze on start, No available IRQ to bind to, increase nr_irqs!
From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 09:19:32 +0000
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On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 17:17 +0000, Michal Novotny wrote:
> On 03/01/2010 03:25 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> 
> >  On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 14:21 +0000, Michal Novotny wrote:
> >
> >>  Hi,
> >>  well, I tried reverting this patch and both applying and not applying
> >>  the new one from Ian but there is still kernel oops. Error image is
> >>  attached. Also, I tried disabling CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ (i.e. setting this
> >>  to n) but no luck. Still the same issue.
> >>
> >  This isn't the same panic, this is failing to mount a root filesystem.
> >  Probably a missing driver modules or an incorrect initrd or something
> >  like that.
> >
> >  Ian.
> >
> >
> >
> Yeah, I can see that now but this root was working fine with
> kernel-2.6.18.8 for xen so may be a missing driver is the real issue
> because it's after initrd already and even booting to single user mode
> or emergency mode is not working so this seems that is cannot see the
> root because of missing driver but the driver should be there I guess
> (this should be a SAS drive). Well, needs a little more investigation.

Many of the SATA/PATA device drivers changed name between 2.6.18 and a
more modern kernel. Something to do with the libata transition IIRC.

I recommend you get a modern kernel booting natively on your system
before worrying about pvops domain 0.

Ian.


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