On 3/29/06, Simon <greminn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Bridge firewalling registered
> > > md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
> > > md: autorun ...
> > > md: ... autorun DONE.
> > > <----- gets to here somewhere ----->
> > >
> > > What i cannot show here (as i am not near the IBM server now), is that
> > > it gets to a bit that says something about "NFS root" and thats where
> > > it halts.... Does anybody have any idea here? I will post the full
> > > output when i get back into work tomorrow morning.
> >
> > I think you should use packages from http://packages.debianbase.de/ as
> > those you're using seems outdated.
>
> An update here if someone could take a look please?... The actual
> output on the screen was:
>
> Bridge firewalling registered
> md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
> md: autorun ...
> md: ... autorun DONE.
> Root NFS: No NFS Server Found
> VFS Unable to mount root via NFS, trying floppy
> VSF Insert root floppy and press enter
> <-- HALT HERE -->
>
> So i have reinstalled sarge and now used the packages from
> http://packages.debianbase.de/ to install XEN and the instructions
> from http://tomas.andago.com/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/wiki/XenSarge to install
> and setup.... Upon reboot it gets to the same place as above and
> automatically reboots the server (i cant tell if its EXCATLY the same
> place as it happens too fast for me it check). Is there a way to
> divert the output at boot time, or get it NOT to autoamtcally reboot?
>
> This seems to be an issue with the IBM xSeries 206 and Xen? We are
> running a SATA drive with this.
Found the issue here!!! Under the standard debian sarge 2.4 kernel,
the SATA hard drive shows up as /dev/hdX, but under the xen 2.6 kernel
its a /dev/sdX, updated the grub menu.lst, and away we go!.
Thanks for the help,
Simon
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