Re: [Xen-users] xen-unstable and pvops kernel

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 06:58:06PM -0500, Mike Collins wrote:
> Hello everyone.  As I am new to this group I'll be short and try to
> explain what I'm doing with enough detail so that someone might be able
> to help me out.  First off I have successfully compiled xen-unstable and
> downloaded Jeremy's pvops kernel, 2.6.31.6.  I have configured it to the
> best of my ability and run built and installed it.  I have executed
> mkinitrd, at first this complained about ahci and two usb modules
> missing.  I have since found the CONFIG settings to compile them as
> modules and now no errors.  I am running Centos 5.3 64bit and have root
> installed on a LVM Group and a LV that's formatted with ext3.  My
> problem is that the kernel and initrd can't seem to find my LVM Group or
> LV's, naturally.  I am at a loss, since I don't have a serial port or
> anyway of seeing anything during boot, it's scrolling a bunch of stuff
> accross the screen.  How can I troubleshoot this?  Do I need to extract
> the initrd img file and start looking at the init scripts to see if it's
> not loading LVM or something like that?  Any pointers would be great!
>

use "mkinitrd -v" instead of just "mkinitrd".
It'll show what it does/generates :)

-- Pasi


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