From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Will Andrews Subject: Re: Xen unprivileged domain not booting Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 11:42:50 -0500 Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20040824164250.GL606@crypt.rcac.purdue.edu> References: <20040820222137.GK606@crypt.rcac.purdue.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 08:24:22AM +0100, Ian Pratt wrote: > Very odd. The 'short writes' suggest that there's some serious > disagreement about the size of the partition that's being > exported. > > > I downloaded the xeno-unstable-src.tgz tarball on August 12th. I > > can try a newer version if anyone thinks that will help. > > It might be worth a try, as there have been literally hundreds of > changesets since then! OK, I tried the version available yesterday. It had the same problem, i.e. short writes. > BTW: which document did you get the 'xda' syntax from? I believe > 'xda' still works, but I haven't used it myself in ages as it's > now possible to export a device to appear as a hd[abcd] or > sd[abcd] in the guest domain. This has the advantage that it > typically avoids the need to edit the /etc/fstab. I get the same problem regardless of whether it's called xda or hda. I did not try xda with yesterday's snapshot. > If you still have problems, please can you enable the debug flags > in drivers/xen/blkback/common.h and rebuild and try again. You > should get some messages appear in dom0 if you do a dmesg. This file doesn't seem to be available for 2.4.26, which is what I'm using. I do find it in the 2.6.7 sparse tree. Thanks for your time! Regards, -- wca Purdue University Rosen Center for Advanced Computing Office: MATH G135 @ Purdue - http://www.itap.purdue.edu/rcs/ NB: crypt.rcs.purdue.edu has retired recently, please use andrewsw@crypt.rcac.purdue.edu for all future contact. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink & Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285