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>> Hello, |
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>> first: where should I ask the following question? |
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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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>> Funny is, that the Gentoo boot images do work, for example |
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>> install-x86-minimal-20100216.iso. |
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>> I use the iso images to boot the system initially, initialize the SCSI disks |
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>> with fdsik and mkfs... and then mount the SCSI drives (/dev/cciss/...), copy |
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>> a working tarball-image, populate the filsystem and then use the grub shell |
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>> make it bootable. |
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>> Attached is a screen shot with the error message. |
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> |
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> Is this screenshot from a domU or dom0 ? If it's from a domU then I |
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> think that in Xen you have a different driver than cciss for the |
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> disks. |
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> If it's from a dom0, are you sure that you have the cciss driver |
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> built-in instead of a module ? From the screenshot it seems that it's |
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> not present at the point the kernel is booting. |
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It is the screenshot of the Dom0. And yes - also for me the driver seems |
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not to be available during boot time. But i am sure to have it build in. |
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And on older hardware (G3 - generation 3 HP hardware) the same kernel |
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seems to work, mounting the cciss devices. |
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Here is what mount says in the same kernel on a G3 hardware (sorry for |
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the linebreaks): |
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orion ~ # mount |
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/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime) |
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proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec) |
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sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec) |
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udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,size=10240k,mode=755) |
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devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,gid=5,mode=620) |
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/dev/cciss/c0d1p1 on /mnt/xen2 type ext3 (rw,noatime) |
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shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) |
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usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,devmode=0664,devgid=85) |
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Should I try to fix the Xen-Kernel from Gentoo with some HP driver |
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source code? Or could it be a completly other issue? |
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