Re: Xen won't start its device backend?

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

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 05:41:24PM +0200, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:
> Hi Manuel!
> 
> Thanks for your reply. I've kept on trying but eventually resetted the Dom0
> and now it comes further, some internal administration must have gone bad. Did
> i accidentally once tried to run it with the partition mounted? It was a PITA
> but now i get in the VNC! However it now tells me:
> 
> Boot from Hard Disk failed: could not read the boot disk
> :(
> 
> I now have:
> disk = [ 'phy:/dev/wd1d,0x01,rw' ] # /dev/vg/guest-volume,raw,xvda,rw' ]
> 
> But where NetBSD normally boots fine from wd1 trough the bootloader Xen HVM
> will not. What am i doing wrong?

if it's HVM then you probably need:
disk = [ 'phy:/dev/wd1d,ioemu:hda,rw' ]

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