Bugs with block devices to domU - let's find solution

[Guryanov Dmitry <dimak@dgap.mipt.ru>]

Hello

I have the same bug, that've been disscussed before - domU can't find 
any block devices and crashes with "Unable to mount root fs". I've spend 
a week under heavy debugging and find, that this bug take place because 
dom0 backend driver can't read parameter physical-device from xenstore. 
For example /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/1/776/physical_device, where  1- 
domU id, 776=0x308 - major and minor numbers of block device, which will 
used by domU.
This parameter must be written by script /etc/xen/scripts/block, which 
must start like /etc/xen/scripts/vif-bridge any time as domU starts, but 
it doesn't.

So, there is a question to xen developers: when and how must this script 
must been started ?


P.S.
To start domU i comment out block in backend driver, where this 
parameter must be obtained and give explicitly value for that variable:

file -    linux-.../drivers/xen/blkback/xenbus.c
function - backend_changed

replace
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    err = xenbus_scanf(NULL, dev->nodename,
               "physical-device", "%li", &pdev);
   
    if (XENBUS_EXIST_ERR(err))
        return;
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with, for example:
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pdev=0x307;   //hda7 - physical device
err=1;
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Guryanov Dmitry