On 21/03/2008, Girish V <
girish.xen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
> I am trying to boot a FC6 domU on Xen 3.2 (compiled on a FC6 system).
>
> After compiling Xen 3.2 successfully on FC6 and making the ramdisk, I
> modified the conf.grub as shown below. With this, I was able to boot xen.
>
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>
>
> # grub.conf generated by anaconda
> #
> # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
> # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that
> # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
> # root (hd0,0)
> # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda1
> # initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
> #boot=/dev/sda
> default=0
> timeout=5
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> hiddenmenu
> title Xen 3.2 (2.6.18.8-xen)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /boot/xen.gz dom0_mem=1024M console=vga
> module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-xen ro root=LABEL=/1 console=tty0
> module /boot/initrd-3.2-xen.img
> title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
> initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Then, I created a domU image as in the uer manual for v3.0.
>
> 1) I created a blank discimage fc6_domudisk and monted in in /mnt
> 2) I copied /{root, dev,var,etc,usr,bin,sbin,lib} to /mnt
> 3) I makde the {home, proc, sys, tmp} directories inside /mnt
> 4) I modified the mnt/etc/fstab as follows
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>
>
> /dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
> devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 5) With this I tried to bring up the domU using the following configuration
> file. From what I understand, I can use the dom0 kernel itself for domU.
>
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>
>
> kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-xen"
> memory = 256
> name = "fc6"
> vif = [ 'bridge=xenbr0' ]
> disk = [ 'file:/second/fc6_domudisk,sda1,w' ]
> root = "/dev/sda1 ro"
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> But the boot fails with a kernel panic. The boot messages are listed below.
>
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>
>
> Using config file "./file-config-rh9_diskimg".
> Started domain fc6_new
> Linux version 2.6.18.8-xen
> (
root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.1.2 20070626 (Red Hat 4.1.2-13))
> #1 SMP Mon Mar 17 20:26:25 EDT 2008
> BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
> Xen: 0000000000000000 - 0000000010800000 (usable)
> 0MB HIGHMEM available.
> 264MB LOWMEM available.
> ACPI in unprivileged domain disabled
> Allocating PCI resources starting at 20000000 (gap: 10800000:ef800000)
> Detected 4232.073 MHz processor.
> Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 67584
> Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda1 ro
> Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
> Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
> Initializing CPU#0
> PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 8192 bytes)
> Xen reported: 3200.118 MHz processor.
> Console: colour dummy device 80x25
> Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
> Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
> Software IO TLB disabled
> vmalloc area: d1000000-f51fe000, maxmem 2d7fe000
> Memory: 255340k/270336k available (2056k kernel code, 6800k reserved, 716k
> data, 196k init, 0k highmem)
> Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...
> Ok.
> calibrate_delay_direct() failed to get a good estimate for loops_per_jiffy.
> Probably due to long platform interrupts. Consider using "lpj=" boot
> option.
> Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
> Capability LSM initialized
> Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
> CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K
> CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
> Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
> SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
> Freeing SMP alternatives: 16k freed
> Brought up 1 CPUs
> migration_cost=0
> NET: Registered protocol family 16
> Brought up 1 CPUs
> PCI: setting up Xen PCI frontend stub
> ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
> Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
> pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
> xen_mem: Initialising balloon driver.
> PCI: System does not support PCI
> PCI: System does not support PCI
> NET: Registered protocol family 2
> IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
> TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
> TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 8192)
> TCP reno registered
> IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14a-xen <
tigran@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
> audit(1423925502.304:1): initialized
> VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
> Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
> Initializing Cryptographic API
> io scheduler noop registered
> io scheduler anticipatory registered
> io scheduler deadline registered
> io scheduler cfq registered (default)
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is unknown type 15 (usb?), fd1 is unknown type 15
> (usb?)
> Failed to obtain physical IRQ 6
> floppy0: Unable to grab DMA2 for the floppy driver
> floppy0: no floppy controllers found
> RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
> loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
> Xen virtual console successfully installed as xvc0
> Event-channel device installed.
> netfront: Initialising virtual ethernet driver.
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
> ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
> PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
> i8042.c: No controller found.
> mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
> md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
> md: bitmap version 4.39
> NET: Registered protocol family 1
> NET: Registered protocol family 17
> Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
> xen-vbd: registered block device major 8
> blkfront: sda1: barriers enabled
> XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/console/0
> BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
> EDD information not available.
> md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
> md: autorun ...
> md: ... autorun DONE.
> EXT2-fs warning (device sda1): ext2_fill_super: mounting ext3 filesystem as
> ext2
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 196k freed
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
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>
> It would be great if someone could help me out.
>
> Thanks,
> Girish
