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Re: Panic when booting xVM: msg#00267

Subject: Re: Panic when booting xVM

Menno Lageman wrote:
> Mark Johnson wrote:
>>
>> Menno Lageman wrote:
>>> Mark Johnson wrote:
>>>> Menno Lageman wrote:
>>>>> I'm having trouble booting snv_76 under xVM on one of my systems 
>>>>> (Tyan 2885). It boots fine on metal, but when booting under xVM it 
>>>>> panics with a 'cannot mount root path' with this call stack:
>>>>>
>>>>> genunix:rootconf+11f()
>>>>> genunix:vfs_mountroot+65()
>>>>> genunix:main+d3()
>>>>> unix:_locore_start+80()
>>>>>
>>>>> The device path shown is the correct devicepath to the rootdisk, it 
>>>>> is the same as when booted successfully on metal.
>>>> What kind of disk adapter do you have? Does it use
>>>> cadp160 for a driver by chance?
>>>>
>>> No, this system has an on-board Silicon Image 3114 SATA controller 
>>> used in PATA compatibility mode.
>> Usually this is a sign that the driver for the disk
>> was installed under /platform/i86pc/kernel/drv/[amd64]
>>
>> No idea if you using compatibility mode?  If you boot
>> with kmdb, can you poke around?  e.g. $c, etc.
>>
> 
> Yes, I can poke around.
> 
> ::msgbuf shows the following warnings:
> WARNING: Cannot load psm pcplusmp
> WARNING: cannot load platform pm driver ppm

Can you setup a serial console?

What does ::modinfo say?



MRJ



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Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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