-----Original Message----- From: xen-...@lists.xensource.com [mailto:xen-...@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of Tian, Kevin Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 4:35 PM To: Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins); xen-...@lists.xensource.com; xen-devel Cc: Munoz, Alberto J Subject: [Xen-devel] RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] Paravirtualized xenlinux/ia64available

Hi, Dan, We tried latest xeno-unstable-ia64 bk tree on a para-virtualized dom0 following your instructions. However it failed to find root fs on ski:

VFS: Cannot open root device "<NULL>" or unknown-block(8,2) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,2)

The bk info is: ChangeSet@1.1435, 2005-05-10 15:58:27-07:00, xen-...@bkbits.net Merge bk://xen.bkbits.net/xeno-unstable.bk into bkbits.net:/repos/x/xen-ia64/xeno-unstable-ia64.bk

However we then tried previous binary-patched dom0 with code in our trunk (VTI disabled), it can work to user prompt. This means the ski environment still working well.

Do you ever see similar error on this revision? Maybe we missed some important step or... ski environment needs some change? The command to start ski is: "ski bootloader xen paralinux nomca simscsi=`pwd`/sd"

Here paralinux is built upon bk://xen-ia64.bkbits.net/xenlinux-ia64-2.6.11.bk.

BTW, just saw a small bug in vcpu.c: IA64FAULT vcpu_itc_d(VCPU *vcpu, UINT64 ... if (((itir & ~0xfc) >> 2) < PAGE_SHIFT) { Should be: if (((itir & 0xfc) >> 2) < PAGE_SHIFT) {