Re: [Xen-users] Fedora Core 5 boot problems

["Eric Wagar" <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've just installed from the tarball install.sh also and have the same
issue.  (Mine is on RHEL4U2 on x86_64.)

When I tried the mkinitrd, I get this error:
[root@stone-age-global /]# /sbin/mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.16-xen.img
2.6.16-xen
No dep file found for kernel 2.6.16-xen

After looking through the other kernels I have, it seems as though they
have them.

What is the workaround here?  Do we just copy over the other deps and
modify them for 2.6.16-xen?

Thanks
eric

On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 14:56:27 +0100, "James Bulpin" <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
said:
> If you install from tarball you need to create this yourself, e.g.:
> 
>    /sbin/mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.16-xen.img 2.6.16-xen
> 
> (and update grub)
> 
> The install.sh script does not do this automagically because initrd 
> generation is distribution-specific.
> 
> James
> 
> Srinivasan S wrote:
> > Thanks for a prompt response ..
> > 
> > I could not find any initrd for the Xen 3.o in my /boot ..
> > Do I need to do a mkinitrd ?  Any hints will help
> > 
> > Regards
> > Srini
> > 
> > 
> >>----- Original Message -----
> >>From: "James Bulpin" <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>To: "Srinivasan S" <ssrini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Fedora Core 5 boot problems
> >>Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 14:37:05 +0100
> >>
> >>
> >>You're using the kernel from the binary tarball and the initrd from 
> >>the FC5 non-Xen kernel. To a first approximation kernel version and 
> >>modules (in the initrd) must match.
> >>
> >>James
> >>
> >>Srinivasan S wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hi
> >>>
> >>>I had Xen 2.x running peacefully on FC4 .. sigh.
> >>>
> >>>Yesterday I upgraded to FC5 and also downloaded and installed the 
> >>>new Xen version 3.x from xensource.com .. I installed via the 
> >>>precompiled tarball.
> >>>
> >>>My grub entries loook like this:
> >>>
> >>>title Xen 3.0 (Fedora/XenLinux 2.6)
> >>>   root (hd0,4)
> >>>   kernel /xen.gz dom0_mem=260000
> >>>   module /vmlinuz-2.6-xen root=/dev/sda6 ro console=tty0
> >>>   module /initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.img
> >>>   boot
> >>>
> >>>My /etc/fstab looks like this:
> >>>
> >>>/dev/sda6                 /                       ext3    defaults        
> >>>1 1
> >>>LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
> >>>none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> >>>none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> >>>none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
> >>>none                    /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
> >>>/dev/sda7               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
> >>>
> >>>...
> >>>
> >>>Fedora is installed on a SATA hard disk, partition /dev/sda6
> >>>
> >>>Xen boots and then soon after reports a kernel panic and after a 
> >>>few seconds reboots .. I was unable to get the messages before 
> >>>the last screen but managed to capture the last messages on 
> >>>screen .. reported below.
> >>>
> >>>...
> >>>Loading jbd.ko module
> >>>jbd: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
> >>>insmod: error inserting /lib/jbd.ko: -1 invalid module format
> >>>Loading ext3.ko module
> >>>ext3: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
> >>>insmod: error inserting /lib/ext3.ko: -1 invalid module format
> >>>Creating root device
> >>>Mounting root filesystem
> >>>mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
> >>>Setting up other filesystems
> >>>Setting up new root fs
> >>>setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory
> >>>no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults
> >>>setuproot: error mounting /proc: no such file or directory
> >>>setuproot: error mounting /sys: no such file or directory
> >>>Switching to new root and running init
> >>>unmounting old /dev
> >>>unmounting old /proc
> >>>unmounting old /sys
> >>>switchroot: mount failed: no such file or directory
> >>>Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill Init:
> >>>
> >>>And then the system quickly reboots.
> >>>
> >>>Any help to fix this is appreciated.
> >>>
> >>>Regards
> >>>Srini
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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