From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 14 01:40:03 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-xen@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFDF5106566C for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 01:40:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBA008FC12 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 01:40:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q2E1e3vs079602 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 01:40:03 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q2E1e3bY079601; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 01:40:03 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 01:40:03 GMT Message-Id: <201203140140.q2E1e3bY079601@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.org From: Mike Kaganski Cc: Subject: Re: kern/165418: [xen] Problems mounting root filesystem from XENHVM X-BeenThere: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Mike Kaganski List-Id: Discussion of the freebsd port to xen - implementation and usage List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 01:40:04 -0000 The following reply was made to PR kern/165418; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Mike Kaganski To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, stefan.witzel@zvw.uni-goettingen.de Cc: Subject: Re: kern/165418: [xen] Problems mounting root filesystem from XENHVM Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:30:52 +1100 Hi, >I also tried to boot the XENHVM kernel after I replaced "ada0" by "ado" in /etc/fstab as suggested by Dave Scott >(http://dave.recoil.org) but also in this case the root device could not be mounted. The proper syntax is ad0, not ado. Seems like xenbus mapping hasn't yet followed the name change that FreeBSD has made (adX->adaX). Hopefully, when this will be fixed, there will be no need to make changes to fstab. By the way, the XENHVM config could be more optimized and exclude an awful lot of unneeded hardware that GENERIC includes (e.g. wireless or firewire, or many specific controllers). Best regards, Mike.