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> We successfully operate some HP Proliant DL380 G3, using Gentoo Xen-kernels |
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> as Dom0 and DomU. |
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> Now i tried to upgrade to Generation 4 and 6: |
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> * HP Proliant DL380 G4 |
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> * HP Proliant DL380 G6 |
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> Grub works fine. After selecting a kernel to boot, it is loaded and starts |
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> operating and fails some lines later with a kernel panic. The kernel seems |
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> not to find the HP SCSI controller (/dev/cciss/...). |
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> I made sure, that the kernel has build in the needed drivers as described |
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> here: |
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> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/HP_ProLiant_DL380_G5 |
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Did you remember to build the filesystem drivers into the kernel (ie not as |
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a module) and follow the directions on building the hardware drivers into |
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the kernel as well? |
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> Funny is, that the Gentoo boot images do work, for example |
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> install-x86-minimal-20100216.iso. |
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If /proc/config.gz exists when you boot from that image you could compare |
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that to the .config file that you're using to see what the differences are. |
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