Re: [Xen-users] Xen kernel panic on FC5

[Xen Help <steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Dopheide wrote:

Join the club!

Your initrd file is bad, try without it (as suggested by others) but I 
doubt it will work.
Help us out figure out how to fix this problem once for all and I will 
write a how to boot xen doc.
++
> This is my first time working with Xen so I'm hoping it's just 
> something easy I'm doing wrong.  I've tried several different 
> combinations, but I've started fresh with FC5 to help reduce the 
> possibility of outside errors.
> Here were my steps:
>
> 1)
> Fresh Fedora Core 5 installation on /dev/hda1
> Installed bridge-utils and other dependencies.
>
> 2)
> installed:
> xen-3.0.3.0-1.i386.rpm
> xen-devel-3.0.3.0-1.i386.rpm
> kernel-xen-2.6.16.29-3.0.3.0.i386.rpm
>
> 3)
> Edited grub.conf to add:
> title Xen
>     root (hd0,0)
>     kernel /boot/xen-3.0.3.0.gz noreboot
>     module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16.29-xen_3.0.3.0 ro root=/dev/hda1
>     module /boot/initrd-2.6.16.29-xen_3.0.3.0.img
>
>
>
> 4) Reboot into "Xen" and get the following in the last bit of output:
>
> Creating /dev
> input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
> Creating initial device nodes
> Setting up hotplug.
> Creating block device nodes.
> Loading ide-disk.ko module
> ide_disk: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted.
> Loading jdb.ko module
> Loading ext3.ko module
> 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 - no syncing: Attempted to kill init!
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
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