Re: 64-bit Xen lose physical drives

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 04:39:28PM +0300, Dima Veselov wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 09:54:46AM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> > When I did some tests in this area, the difference was lost in noise.
> 
> Then I guess it is a solution. By the way, another question - what parameter 
> kernel should get in grub to see a root device properly? How-to does not 
> cover this, it says root=/dev/hda1, but NetBSD is always fail (even if I use 
> root=/dev/sd0a) to find root device. I tried bootdev=/dev/sd0a, but still no 
> success.

root=sd0 or bootdev=sd0 should work

> 
> Also, can you say, as a maintainer - is it normal if kernel can't see USB 
> keyboard, when asking which rootdev it should use? Keyboard appears right 
> after that question.

I think it should work, but I admit I didn't try much in that configuration.
I mostly use serial console for my xen systems.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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