[Xen-users] Re: No filesystem could mount root

[Peter Mellon <knascent@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, me again. I think I know why this is happening. The image file
I'm using as a disk has two partitions on it (I'm guessing one for
boot loader and one for is the main partition?)

[root@localhost xen]# fdisk -lu /home/xen/image
---
    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
imagep1   *          63      208844      104391   83  Linux
imagep2          208845    20466809    10128982+  8e  Linux LVM
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(1023, 254, 63) logical=(1273, 254, 63)

And its not booting because I'm trying to put the entire file on
domU's sda1 rather than just that second partition. I tried making it
/dev/sda instead of sda1 (even though I'm pretty sure thats not the
right way to do it) and now a new error happens during boot:
----
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
----

Slow progress, but I'm getting closer :-). Anyone know how I can set
up the partitions correctly from an image file and boot from it?

Thanks

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Peter Mellon <knascent@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello again,
> I just realized what the problem was. I didn't specify a 'ramdisk' option in 
> my config file. I told it to use the same initrd as the dom0 and I got a 
> little further in the domU boot, but now I have this error message:
>
> -------
> VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sda1
> Kernel panc - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
> ------
>
> Anyone know how I can fix this?
>
> Thanks a lot
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Peter Mellon <knascent@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've finally been able to install Xen (version 3.4 with kernel 2.6.18) and 
>> booted the xen kernel. Now I'm trying to create a VM that uses an image file 
>> as its disk, but a few seconds after I boot the VM it stops with this 
>> message:
>>
>> [root@localhost xen]# xm create -c xmexample1 vmid=1
>> ......
>> No filesystem could mount root, tried:  ext2
>> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 
>> unknown-block(8,1)
>>
>> Here is the config file:
>> -------------------------------
>> kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-xen"
>> memory = 400
>> name = "ExampleDomain"
>> vcpus = 4
>> vif = [ 'mac=00:16:3e:00:01:01, bridge=br0' ]
>> disk = [ 'file:/home/xen/image,sda1,w' ]
>> root = "/dev/sda1 ro"
>> extra = "4"
>> --------------------------------
>>
>> That image, /home/xen/image, was created by a previous Xen installation (it 
>> came with my Fedora 7 distro with virt-manager, so I did not have to manage 
>> config files. I want to boot from it again using the newest Xen)
>>
>> Thanks

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