Re: [Xen-users] debian+xen: System fails to mount swap, mydql

[Badiane Ka <badiane_ka@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:02:26 +0200
> From: Ernst Bachmann <e.bachmann@xxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] debian+xen: System fails to
> mount swap,   mydql
>       not starting
> To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Message-ID: <200510141002.27138.e.bachmann@xxxxxxxx>
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> 
> On Friday 14 October 2005 04:17, Badiane Ka wrote:
> > My most pressing problem is why mounting swap
> fails in
> > all my domU's.
> >
> > My disks are LVM based.
> > /dev/xen/www_swap for example it the (duh!) swap
> space
> > for the www domain and exported from the xen file
> as
> > disk = [ 'phy:xen/www,sda1,w' ,
> > 'phy:xen/www_swap,sda2,w' ]
> ..
> > So I formated the main storage area as XFS and ran
> > mkswap on the {domUname}_swap areas.
> >
> > When I boot the domU it fails.
> 
> did you try to "mkswap /dev/sda2" from inside the
> domU?
> 
> Would at least let us know if the xen blockdevice
> for sda2 fails or if your 
> xenU linux kernel fails to activate it... On that
> note: you did compile your 
> xenU kernels with swap support, right?
> 
> /Ernst
I have tried mkswap from within the domU but it failed
stating that the device doesn't exist.

Swap is activated in the domU kernels.

Badiane



                
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