Re: domU-current "root device" not found with dom0-4.0_STABLE

["Sarton O'Brien" <bsd-xen%roguewrt.org@localhost>]

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:49:01 am Joel CARNAT wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13 2008 - 09:42, Sarton O'Brien wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:48:51 am Joel CARNAT wrote:
> > > From what I remember, I use to set this flags so that NetBSD could see
> > > the disk correctly - back to early 4.0_BETA if I remember well.
> > >
> > > It is still present in the doc
> > > http://www.netbsd.org/ports/xen/howto.html#netbsd-domU
> > >
> > > So as you say, that's maybe just a bug|feature of new xen packages.
> >
> > Yes, I know it is still referenced (hence the mention about the docs) and
> > it appears to be more wrong than I thought. Obviously if you were to
> > specify anything it should be xbd0a, not wd0a.
> >
> > That aside, I've never used a 'root=' line except for linux and I've been
> > tracking xen3 from very early on. I have this tendency to thin down
> > configs as much as possible and went through all the absolutely required
> > lines from the get go.
> >
> > The nbsd/xen domu kernel isn't much different from a normal kernel WRT to
> > boot. I believe the kernel now accepts a 'root=' parameter but back when
> > I first started playing with xen3, there was no such thing to my
> > knowledge. Don't ask me what value the parameter actually needs ...
> >
> > To my knowledge, the 'root=' line has _always_ been linux specific WRT to
> > xen3 on nbsd.
>
> Feels like a good knowledge :-)
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-xen/2007/06/17/0002.html

Yes, I remember that post :)

Sarton