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List:       netbsd-users
Subject:    Re: wedges, why is dk0 root?
From:       Stephen Borrill <netbsd () precedence ! co ! uk>
Date:       2015-06-16 16:19:19
Message-ID: Pine.NEB.4.64.1506111334590.534 () ugly ! internal ! precedence ! co ! uk
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On Wed, 10 Jun 2015, Michael van Elst wrote:
> bouyer@antioche.eu.org (Manuel Bouyer) writes:
>
>> NetBSD/Xen doens't have a way to know which device is the root device,
>> it has to pick one and it eventually gets the wrong one.
>> You have to pass the root= option (e.g. extra="root=xbd0")
>
> NetBSD/Xen takes the first disk device in DEVITER_F_ROOT_FIRST order.
> wk devices are direct children of the root and real devices
> are children of some bus and controller nodes, so dk comes first.
>
> The code doesn't yet understand wedge names....

OK, that's fine as long I know it won't affect real hardware when 
upgrading.

I can confirm that adding root=xbd0 to the OS boot parameters box in 
XenCenter fixes the problem when booting on XenServer.

-- 
Stephen

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