Re: [Xen-users] Newbie: Can't boot vm1

["Ben Schmidt" <janedoe200@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Jan was totally right.
I build the ramdisk like he told me to and than added <ramdisk = 
"/boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-2-xen-686"> to my vm-config.
That was it.

Thanks again

Ben


> From: John Smith <netman1@xxxxxxx>
> To: Ben Schmidt <janedoe200@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Newbie: Can't boot vm1
> Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:23:24 +0200
>
> Ben Schmidt wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I use Debian etch (Testing) on my Machine running 2.6.17-2-xen-686
> > kernel from etch. I tryed to set up vm1 in xen. Here is my config:
> > ****************************************
> > kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-2-xen-686"
> > memory = 128
> > name = "xenvm1"
> > disk = [ 'file:/var/images/vm1disk,sda1,w',
> > 'file:/var/images/vm1swap,sda2,w' ]
> > root = "/dev/sda1 ro"
> > ****************************************
> >
> > here is my /etc/fstab for the vm:
> > ****************************************
> > /dev/sda1       /       ext3    errors=remount-ro       0       1
> > /dev/sda2       none    swap    sw                      0       0
> > proc            /proc   proc    defa ults                0       0
> > ****************************************
> >
> > /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-2-xen-686, /var/images/vm1disk and
> > /var/images/vm1swap are there and I can chroot to /var/images/vm1disk
> > without any problems.
> >
> > When I try to boot the Mashine I get the message that the kernel can't
> > find the Partition:
> > ****************************************
> > NET: Registered protocol family 20
> > Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
> > Registering block device major 8
> > No filesystem could mount root, tried:  cramfs
> > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> > unknown-block(8,1
> > ****************************************
> > You can find the whole output at: http://pastebin.ca/raw/190905
> >
> > Could somebody please explain what I did do wrong. I really want to
> > understand that the Problem is.
> >
> > Thank
> >
> > Ben
> >
> >
> >
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> >
>
> Hi Ben,
>
>         you need an initrd to go with that kernel and configure
> it into your user domain config. Create it with
>
>         mkinitramfs-kpkg -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-2-xen-686 2.6.17-2-xen-686
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Jan.
>
>
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