On Tuesday 01 April 2008 06:26, Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 09:11:38AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > > I think it's reasonable to expect a Lenny kernel to work in the same > > manner as an Etch kernel and to consider any failure to do so to be a > > bug. > > Well, this is not possible in this case because they added code to > hijack other devices _and_ proposed the usage by default with the > knowledge that Linus won't ever accept this.
Do we have people with enough spare time to fix this foolishness? > > The above is what I was using. I added the "console=hvc0" bit as you > > suggested (why is that needed?) and it displayed some console messages, > > Because there is not code which overrides the default console. Fedora > have a patch, maybe I'll pull them in for now. Fedora also messes things up. /dev/tty0 doesn't work for a getty with a Fedora/RHEL/CentOS kernel in a DomU. > > mount: Mounting /dev/xvda on /root failed: No such device > > Contents of /dev? /sys/block? (initramfs) ls -l /sys/block/xvda -r--r--r-- 1 0 0 4096 Mar 31 21:55 capability -r--r--r-- 1 0 0 4096 Mar 31 21:55 dev lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 0 Mar 31 21:55 device -> ../../devices/vbd-51712 drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 0 Mar 31 21:55 holders drwxr-xr-x 3 0 0 0 Mar 31 21:55 queue -r--r--r-- 1 0 0 4096 Mar 31 21:55 range -r--r--r-- 1 0 0 4096 Mar 31 21:55 removable -r--r--r-- 1 0 0 4096 Mar 31 21:55 size drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 0 Mar 31 21:55 slaves -r--r--r-- 1 0 0 4096 Mar 31 21:55 stat lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 0 Mar 31 21:55 subsystem -> ../../block --w------- 1 0 0 4096 Mar 31 21:55 uevent (initramfs) ls -l /dev/xvda brw-rw---- 1 0 0 202, 0 Mar 31 21:55 /dev/xvda xenstore-ls /local/domain/$domid gives the following: vm = "/vm/5787f4aa-a61e-c6b7-ce50-6a507cc9233c" device = "" vbd = "" 51712 = "" virtual-device = "51712" device-type = "disk" protocol = "x86_32-abi" backend-id = "0" state = "4" backend = "/local/domain/0/backend/vbd/23/51712" ring-ref = "8" event-channel = "6" vif = "" 0 = "" mac = "00:16:3e:66:66:69" handle = "0" protocol = "x86_32-abi" backend-id = "0" state = "4" backend = "/local/domain/0/backend/vif/23/0" tx-ring-ref = "768" rx-ring-ref = "769" event-channel = "7" request-rx-copy = "1" feature-rx-notify = "1" feature-sg = "1" feature-gso-tcpv4 = "1" console = "" 0 = "" protocol = "x86_32-abi" state = "1" backend-id = "0" backend = "/local/domain/0/backend/console/23/0" device-misc = "" vif = "" nextDeviceID = "1" console = "" nextDeviceID = "1" console = "" ring-ref = "77958" port = "2" limit = "1048576" type = "xenconsoled" tty = "/dev/pts/2" image = "" entry = "3224522752" pae-mode = "yes" loader = "generic" virt-base = "3221225472" features = "" pae-pgdir-above-4gb = "1" writable-page-tables = "0" xen-version = "xen-3.0" guest-os = "linux" hypercall-page = "3224731648" guest-version = "2.6" store = "" ring-ref = "77959" port = "1" cpu = "" 0 = "" availability = "online" control = "" platform-feature-multiprocessor-suspend = "1" name = "play-test" domid = "23" memory = "" target = "102400" serial = "" 0 = "" tty = "/dev/pts/2" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
