Re: [Xen-devel] Re: domU kernel panic with root fs

[Mark Williamson <maw48@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Are you using devfs, udev or static /dev?  Only the latter two will work 
in domain != 0, so you may need to set one of those alternatives up.
HTH,
Mark

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"Boing!  Init 0" said Zebedee

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Dan Cardamore wrote:

> Bjoern Sessler <bjoern.sessler <at> web.de> writes:
> > Hi,
> >
> > i installed xen 2.0 on my new installed gentoo box. xen0 works great,
> > but i can't get domU kernel to mount root fs:
> >
> > VFS: Cannot open root device "sda5" or unknown-block(8,5)
> > Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> > unknown-block(8,5)
>
> I'm having the exact same problem, does anyone know of a solution?
>
> From dom0 I can 'mount -o loop rootfs /mnt/loop' no problems.  It's an ext3
> filesystem which my 2.4.27 kernel supports.
>
> Dan
>
>
>
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