Subject: Re: grub/Xen2 and having SCSI and SATA disks
To: Christoph Badura <bad@bsd.de>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-xen
Date: 06/14/2007 20:17:29
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 06:05:57PM +0200, Christoph Badura wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 10:40:28PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 05:35:05PM +0200, Christoph Badura wrote:
> > NetBSD doesn't get bootinfo from grub. This is what the bootdev=
> > boot line option is for (in your case you probably want bootdev=ld0)
>
> No, obviously it doesn't. That begs the question what all the code
> is supposed to do that relies on Xen getting the bootinfo from the
> bios?
I suspect it's an heritage from i386. What code are you talking about ?
>
> > > (hd0) /dev/wd0d
> > > (hd1) /dev/sd0d
> > > (hd2) /dev/sd1d
> > >
> > > This is to be expected, because grub(1) first probes the IDE/ATA disks and
> > > then the SCSI disks. (I believe it fails to probe the ld(4) disks on NetBSD.)
> > works for me ...
>
> What works for your?
It properly probes ld(4)
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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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