Subject: Re: xen novice problem
To: Mark Davies <mark@mcs.vuw.ac.nz>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-xen
Date: 11/30/2007 12:47:23
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 05:15:10PM +1300, Mark Davies wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Mark Davies wrote:
> > OK, I'm definitely in newbie mode today.
>      [...]
> > Gets to this point and then just sits there until I eventually "xm
> > destroy dom1"
> 
> > disk = [ 'phy:/dev/wd0h,0x03,w','file:/var/SAVE/i386cd.iso,0x04,r'
> 
> > Suggestions?
> 
> Answering my own question: it was the phy:/dev/wd0h.  Changing that to 
> a file image gets me a successfully installed and running NetBSD 
> client.

Do you get any message in dmesg about wd0h, or xbdback when using
phy:/dev/wd0h ? Using physical devices definitively works for me ...

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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