Re: [Xen-users] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 09:44:41AM -0800, ccmail111 wrote:
>    Hi Pasi,
> 
>    I see:
> 
> 
>    Unmounting old  /sys failed
> 
>    Switching root mount failed : No such file or directory
> 
>     kernel panic: not syncing attempted to kill init !
> 
>    Thanks,
> 

So your initrd image is wrong, or your root= parameter for the dom0 kernel
is wrong..

Does your initrd image load the correct drivers, to be able to access the 
disks? 
Are you using grub2?

Please paste the full kernel boot log messages.

-- Pasi

> 
>    SK
> 
> 
> 
>    --- On Thu, 2/25/10, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>      From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
>      Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill
>      init
>      To: "ccmail111" <ccmail111@xxxxxxxxx>
>      Cc: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>      Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010, 7:17 AM
> 
>      On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 03:15:24PM -0800, ccmail111 wrote:
>      >    Hi,
>      >
>      >    I am trying to load 3.4.2 (official version) compiled from sources
>      on RH5.
>      >
>      >    grub:
>      >
>      >    title Xen 3.4 / XenLinux 2.6
>      >           root (hd0,0)
>      >           kernel /xen-3.4.2.gz console=vga root=/dev/sda2
>      dom0_mem=100000
>      >           module /vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-xen  ro console=tty0 vga=text-80x30
>      >           module /initrd-2.6.18.8-xen.img
>      >
>      >    df:
>      >
>      >    /dev/sda2             20315844    698288  18568916   4% /
>      >
>      >    fstab:
>      >
>      >    LABEL=SWAP-sda3         swap                    swap    defaults
>          0
>      >    0
>      >
>      >    Any suggestions !
>      >
> 
>      Do you have some problem?
> 
>      Also you might want to check out [1]http://gitco.de/repo/,
>      they have rpms of xen 3.4.2 for el5.
> 
>      -- Pasi
> 
> References
> 
>    Visible links
>    1. http://gitco.de/repo/

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