[Xen-users] Re: don't use kernel with initrd when installing xen instances

["Henning Sprang" <henning_sprang@xxxxxx>]

Oops, that was supposed to be an information for the fai users mailing list...
But it might also be as useful to people willing to install xen vm's
with FAI (http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de) , which is quite
useful when having multiple different classes (and combinations of
classes) of systems to install.

Henning

On 8/14/06, Henning Sprang <henning_sprang@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> I just had a good while of time wasted when finding this out:
>
> When installing a xen instance with FAI, and having it configured to
> use and initrd, the root file system won't get mounted. The vm hangs
> on the message:
>
> Boot: waiting for root file system
>
> and after a while it just runs the busybox system contained in the initrd.
> I finally found out that the only difference between other systems
> where i made FAI installations and the one I tried to install was the
> initrd, removed it, and everything was working fine.
> I am not so deep into the functioning of the initrd, but probably the
> root mounting process via ramdisk doesn't allow another change of the
> root file system to the nfs root somehow.
>
> In "normal" FAI install mode this problem probably doesn't occur
> because either the fai-kernels don't use an initrd or they have an
> initrd that don't have this problem - I didn't check that yet.
>
> Henning
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