Re: [Xen-devel] newbie xen question

[Mark Williamson <Mark.Williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> It has been my experience (as short as it is with Xen) that having devfs
> built into the kernel image that is booting a domU, irregardless of
> whether or not you pass devfs=nomount or not, will result in this error
> message.  Try compiling your domU kernel without devfs at all and see
> what happens.

Correct - don't build devfs into your kernel at all if you want it to boot in 
a domU.

Cheers,
Mark

>
> B.
>
> On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 17:36, Nuutti Kotivuori wrote:
> > All this time, I still haven't managed to make a single Xen domain
> > boot, other than domain0. I am just completely dumbfounded at the
> > moment.
> >
> > I am starting the domain with the command line:
> >
> >   xm create -c name=i1 kernel=/tmp/vmlinuz memory=64
> > disk=phy:/dev/hda6,hda1,w root=/dev/hda1 restart=never
> >
> > And all I ever get as a result is:
> >
> >   Xen virtual console successfully installed as tty
> >   Event-channel device installed.
> >   xen_blk: Initialising virtual block device driver
> >   xen_net: Initialising virtual ethernet driver.
> >   ...
> >   VFS: Cannot open root device "hda1" or unknown-block(3,1)
> >   Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> >
> > My xmdefconfig is empty. I first thought it to be just a devfs
> > problem, since I used to use devfs=mount on the command line, but upon
> > closer inspection, it never had anything to do with it. With 2.6, hda
> > is looked up in sysfs, and Xen should support that.
> >
> > My Xen things come from the 2.0.4-3 Debian packages and both dom0 and
> > domU kernels are 2.6.10 debian kernels compiled by me.
> >
> > -- Naked
> >
> >
> >
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