Archives for: September 2008, 24

Sep/24
2008

To keep it straight, the guys at Citrix removed some drivers in the new release of Xenserver.
My test machine is a AMD X2 with a nforce 5 board and an AMD74xx chip on it for the P-ATA connections. In addition i've build up a software raid 5 with S-ATA drives for the SR where the VMs are stored and the system is on two software mirrored P-ATA drives. The boot from software raid in xenserver is allways a little tricky, not supported but still not too complicated (Dmitry Komarov wrote this together).
If your fresh upgrade or installation will continue to reboot after the initial splashscreen on and on again, boot from a live-linux (e.g. knoppix), build up a new init-ramdisk as Dmitry wrote in his howto, add up the module (in my case it was the amd74xx.ko) and be sure that the mkrootdev points correctly to your disk, the installation may have done this wrong (e.g. hde1 instead of hda1).

This was the first upgrade with 'problems' since 3.0 ...