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nponeccop

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Registered: 2011-09-05

Posts: 17

no network or disk devices in Arch Linux Xen guest

The latest core installer (2001.08 x64) cannot find any disks to install. Network cannot be detected either. Installation from i686 core image works fine, only x64 fails.

HDT says the following modules are required:

piix |ata_piix
8139cp | 8139too
i2c_piix4
xen_platform_pci
8139cp | 8139too

but modprobing them doesn't help. Moreover xen_platform_pci is already there.

32-bit Arch doesn't have xen_platform_pci module loaded. Can this be a problem?

Besides xen_platform_pci, there are following difference in the modules loaded during 64 bit and 32 bit setups:

--- 32_setup    2011-09-05 13:39:11.000000000 +0000
+++ 64_setup    2011-09-05 13:31:12.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-8139cp
-8139too
-ata_generic
ata_piix
cdrom
crc16
@@ -13,7 +10,7 @@
floppy
hid
i2c_core
-i2c_piix4
+i2c_piix
jbd2
joydev
libata
@@ -23,7 +20,6 @@
pata_acpi
pcspkr
processor
-psmouse
scsi_mod
sd_mod
serio_raw

Basically, 32-bit setup loads i2c_piix4 instead of i2c_piix and also loads 8139cp, 8139too and ata_generic modules.

lspci displays Xen Platform SCSI device, but not Realtek network controller.

Last edited by nponeccop (2011-09-05 14:07:09)