Subject: Re: Booting Domain0 - Help - More information
To: None <john@johnrshannon.com>
From: John R. Shannon <john@johnrshannon.com>
List: port-xen
Date: 11/20/2005 03:47:01
When booting NetBSD with GENERIC, dmesg shows:

Kernelized RAIDframe activated
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
scsibus1: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
scsibus2: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
scsibus3: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
cd0 at scsibus0 target 5 lun 0: <YAMAHA, CRW2100S, 1.0H> cdrom removable
cd0: sync (50.00ns offset 7), 8-bit (20.000MB/s) transfers
sd0 at scsibus2 target 0 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST373454LW, HPS0> disk fixed
sd0: 70007 MB, 50824 cyl, 4 head, 705 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 143374738 
sectors
sd0: sync (6.25ns offset 63), 16-bit (320.000MB/s) transfers, tagged 
queueing
sd1 at scsibus2 target 4 lun 0: <CSC 36GB, 15K REFURBISHED, 0113> disk fixed
sd1: 35003 MB, 31310 cyl, 4 head, 572 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 71687372 sectors
sd1: sync (6.25ns offset 63), 16-bit (320.000MB/s) transfers, tagged 
queueing
boot device: sd0
root on sd0a dumps on sd0b
root file system type: ffs

When booting with XEN and XEN0, dmesg does not show sd0 or sd1 being 
detected. It prompts for a boot device.

John R. Shannon wrote:
> I'm experiencing a problem trying to boot XEN with NetBSD 3.0 in domain 0. The 
> boot of XEN completes and NetBSD starts. It goes through initializes most 
> (all?) devices and then prompts for the root device. No hard drives are 
> offered as choices.
> 
> The computer has two SCSI disks; root is on sd0a.

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John R. Shannon
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