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Re: [Xen-devel] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!



Ian,

OK. I copied all the contents from (hdc3) /dev to (hdc1) /dev, and that let's me boot xenU on hdc1. The problem, however, is that this is not they way RHEL 4 works--I need to figure out how the xen0 is able to boot off essentially the same setup.

[root@dyn95394184 xen]# xm list
Name              Id  Mem(MB)  CPU  State  Time(s)  Console
Domain-0           0      495        0      r----    126.0
test1                   1        64        0      -b---       2.0    9601
[root@dyn95394184 xen]#




-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Date:   Tue, 21 Dec 2004 12:53:15 -0600
From:   David F Barrera <dfbp@xxxxxxxxxx>
To:     xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
References: <E1CgWrK-0003vv-00@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <41C844BA.7020801@xxxxxxxxxx>



Ian,

As I indicated earlier, I created an image file, and I am able to boot xenU now:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop release 3.90 (Nahant)
Kernel 2.6.9-xenU on an i686

(none) login:

I still can't log in, but I will continue to add files to the image to make it work. In the image, I copied the contents of (hdc3) /dev to the image/dev. I still don't understand why I can get xenU to boot using the system partition (hdc1). I'll keep digging.

David F Barrera



Ian Pratt wrote:

I had tried that (and hda1) before, but sda1 I get an error, too:
[root@dyn95394184 xen]# xm create -c test1 vmid=1
Using config file "test1".
Error: Error creating domain: vbd: Device not found: sda1

try  disk = [ 'phy:hdc1,0801,w' ]

0801 == sda1

No difference.  Same Kernel panic


Something odd is going on here -- I believe other people have had
RHEL3 working.
I believe it. But RHEL 4 has some differences from RHEL 3, among them the fact that in RHEL 4 the devices in /dev are created dynamically. Thus, if I mount hdc1 and look at /dev, it is empty. However, /dev in hdc3 (xen0) has 671 entries. I have a SuSE 9.0 system where the drive that I export (equivalent to hdc1, in this case) has many devicen on /dev, meaning they are static; RHEL 3 is similar.

Can you mount hdc1 in dom 0 OK?

Yes:

[root@dyn95394184 ~]# mount /dev/hdc1 /data1
[root@dyn95394184 ~]# df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdc3              6372520   2732376   3316436  46% /
none                    251384         0    251384   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hdc1              7055144   2422572   4274180  37% /data1
[root@dyn95394184 ~]#

Is there an sbin/init

[root@dyn95394184 ~]# ls /data1/sbin/init
/data1/sbin/init
[root@dyn95394184 ~]#

? Is there
a dev directory?
Yes, but it is empty:
[root@dyn95394184 dev]# pwd
/data1/dev
[root@dyn95394184 dev]# ls
[root@dyn95394184 dev]#

It might be worth enabling the debugging printks in
drivers/xen/blkfront/block.h and drivers/xen/blockback/common.h
and rebuilding xen0 / xenU.

I created an image file to experiment, and it seems to go a little further. The problem has got to be related to the /dev issue.

disk = [ 'file:/boot/initrd.x86.image,0801,w' ]
# Set if you want dhcp to allocate the IP address.
# dhcp="dhcp"
# Set root device.
root = "/dev/sda1 ro"


Red Hat nash version 4.1.18 starting
Mounted /proc filesystem
Mounting sysfs
Creating /dev
Starting udev
Creating root device
Mounting root filesystem
Switching to new root
init started: BusyBox v1.00-pre10 (2004.06.10-04:09+0000) multi-call binary Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.9-xenU #1 Fri Dec 17 15:50:10 CST 2004 i686 unknown


Ian







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