Subject: Continuing problems with Dell PE 1550.
To: None <port-xen@NetBSD.org>
From: Lars-Johan Liman <liman@autonomica.se>
List: port-xen
Date: 04/13/2006 11:26:19
I mentioned on i386-users (or was it current-users?) that I had
problem booting my old Dell PowerEdge 1550 with modern code. I believe
I've found the problem behind that (and I see no reson to dwell
further on that subject ... ;-), but now I want to install XEN0.
The first problem was to install GRUB, but I think I overcame that too
(thanks to Chris Brookes and
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-xen/2005/11/06/0001.html).
The XEN kernel seems to boot fine. AFAICT it manages to find, load,
and start the correct NetBSD XEN0 kernel.
My problem now, is that when I try to boot the XEN0 kernel, from
NetBSD-daily/i386/20060410, it doesn't enable the AMR RAID controller
from which it want's mount its root file system, hence no root disk,
hence game over. It _IS_ found by the GENERIC kernel.
This is a snippet that I managed to collect during boot. Why doesn't
it probe properly? It's _FOUND_ all right ...
pci3 at hypervisor0 bus 2
pci3: i/o space, memory space enabled
ppb1 at pci3 dev 0 function 0: Digital Equipment DC21154 PCI-PCI Bridge (rev. 0x05)
pci at ppb1 bus 3 not configured
Q Logic product 0x1216 (SCSI mass storage, revision 0x06) at pci3 dev 1 function 0 not configured
pci4 at hypervisor0 bus 3
pci4: i/o space, memory space enabled
American Megatrends MegaRAID 3 (RAID mass storage, revision 0x20) at pci4 dev 0 function 0 not configured
Xen clock: using event channel 10
raidattach: Asked for 8 units
Kernelized RAIDframe activated
crypto: assign driver 0, flags 2
crypto: driver 0 registers alg 1 flags 0 maxoplen 0
crypto: driver 0 registers alg 2 flags 0 maxoplen 0
crypto: driver 0 registers alg 3 flags 0 maxoplen 0
crypto: driver 0 registers alg 4 flags 0 maxoplen 0
crypto: driver 0 registers alg 5 flags 0 maxoplen 0
crypto: driver 0 registers alg 17 flags 0 maxoplen 0
crypto: driver 0 registers alg 6 flags 0 maxoplen 0
Cheers, and Happy Easter
/Liman
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