Subject: Re: HEAD install kernel crashes
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Nate Bohlmann <njb@elfwerks.com>
List: port-xen
Date: 05/11/2006 11:38:03
This doesn't seem right to me. Before the domU kernel would crash in
xenwatch when it tried to figure out the CD-ROM which was labelled as
xbd1. How can a fix to this cause everything to come crashing down?
Nate
Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 10:33:07PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>
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>>On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 07:49:21PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
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>>>On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 10:28:22AM -0600, Nate Bohlmann wrote:
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>>>>No dice. When I put the two disks on the same line as you show below, I
>>>>get an
>>>>Error: int argument required. The system doesn't even boot.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>This is because xentools don't know about wd0 and maybe cd0.
>>>You can use hd0 and hd1 instead, NetBSD doesn't use this parameter anyway
>>>
>>>
>>I have to correct this: with Xen3 this is used as a config parameter
>>(so that it can be wired down in kernel configs if needed)
>>but it's wilcarded in the default kenrel configs.
>>
>>
>
>I fixed this in current and requested a pullup for netbsd-3; however on
>my system, when I configure a VBD backed by a removable device with no
>media (tested cdrom and ZIP), this crashes the linux domain0 kernel.
>Tested with both a netbsd and linux dom0, same result, I suspect
>the crash happens before the guest domain's kernel is started
>
>