>
> 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
