I've tried with cr kernel, not it moves much faster but still fails -- fails at the partition failure, this setup is S3 backed image.
root (hd0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, using whole disk
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-131.17.1.el6.x86_64 ro root=/dev/sda1 rd_NO_LUKS rd
_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTY
PE=pc KEYTABLE=us crashkernel=auto crashkernel=auto
initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.32-131.17.1.el6.x86_64.img
close blk: backend at /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/8/2049
close blk: backend at /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/8/2064
close blk: backend at /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/8/2080
close blk: backend at /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/8/2096
close blk: backend at /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/8/2112
Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
Linux version 2.6.32-131.17.1.el6.x86_64 (mockbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.4.5 20110214 (Red Hat 4.4.5-6) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Thu Oct 6 19:24:09 BST 2011
Command line: ro root=/dev/sda1 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us crashkernel=auto crashkernel=auto
KERNEL supported cpus:
Intel GenuineIntel
AMD AuthenticAMD
Centaur CentaurHauls
ACPI in unprivileged domain disabled
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Xen: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
Xen: 00000000000a0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
Xen: 0000000000100000 - 00000001c0000000 (usable)
DMI not present or invalid.
last_pfn = 0x1c0000 max_arch_pfn = 0x400000000
last_pfn = 0x100000 max_arch_pfn = 0x400000000
init_memory_mapping: 0000000000000000-0000000100000000
init_memory_mapping: 0000000100000000-00000001c0000000
RAMDISK: 02028000 - 0460c000
No NUMA configuration found
Faking a node at 0000000000000000-00000001c0000000
Bootmem setup node 0 0000000000000000-00000001c0000000
NODE_DATA [0000000000008000 - 000000000003bfff]
bootmap [000000000003c000 - 0000000000073fff] pages 38
(8 early reservations) ==> bootmem [0000000000 - 01c0000000]
#0 [0000000000 - 0000001000] BIOS data page ==> [0000000000 - 0000001000]
#1 [000540f000 - 000543e000] XEN PAGETABLES ==> [000540f000 - 000543e000]
#2 [0000006000 - 0000008000] TRAMPOLINE ==> [0000006000 - 0000008000]
#3 [0001000000 - 0002007524] TEXT DATA BSS ==> [0001000000 - 0002007524]
#4 [0002028000 - 000460c000] RAMDISK ==> [0002028000 - 000460c000]
#5 [000460c000 - 000540f000] XEN START INFO ==> [000460c000 - 000540f000]
#6 [0000100000 - 00008d3000] PGTABLE ==> [0000100000 - 00008d3000]
#7 [000543e000 - 0005a41000] PGTABLE ==> [000543e000 - 0005a41000]
Reserving 129MB of memory at 96MB for crashkernel (System RAM: 7168MB)
Zone PFN ranges:
DMA 0x00000001 -> 0x00001000
DMA32 0x00001000 -> 0x00100000
Normal 0x00100000 -> 0x001c0000
Movable zone start PFN for each node
early_node_map[2] active PFN ranges
0: 0x00000001 -> 0x000000a0
0: 0x00000100 -> 0x001c0000
SFI: Simple Firmware Interface v0.7 http://simplefirmware.org
SMP: Allowing 8 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs
No local APIC present
APIC: disable apic facility
PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000a0000 - 0000000000100000
PCI: Warning: Cannot find a gap in the 32bit address range
PCI: Unassigned devices with 32bit resource registers may break!
Allocating PCI resources starting at 1c0100000 (gap: 1c0100000:400000)
Booting paravirtualized kernel on Xen
Xen version: 3.4.3-2.6.18 (preserve-AD)
NR_CPUS:4096 nr_cpumask_bits:8 nr_cpu_ids:8 nr_node_ids:1
PERCPU: Embedded 30 pages/cpu @ffff88002804f000 s92504 r8192 d22184 u122880
pcpu-alloc: s92504 r8192 d22184 u122880 alloc=30*4096
pcpu-alloc: [0] 0 [0] 1 [0] 2 [0] 3 [0] 4 [0] 5 [0] 6 [0] 7
Xen: using vcpu_info placement
Built 1 zonelists in Node order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 1807817
Policy zone: Normal
Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/sda1 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us crashkernel=auto crashkernel=129M@0M
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Checking aperture...
No AGP bridge found
AMD-Vi disabled by default: pass amd_iommu=on to enable
PCI-DMA: Using software bounce buffering for IO (SWIOTLB)
Placing 64MB software IO TLB between ffff880020000000 - ffff880024000000
software IO TLB at phys 0x20000000 - 0x24000000
Memory: 6955572k/7340032k available (5013k kernel code, 388k absent, 384072k reserved, 7291k data, 1232k init)
Hierarchical RCU implementation.
NR_IRQS:33024 nr_irqs:336
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
console [tty0] enabled
console [hvc0] enabled
...
TCP cubic registered
Initializing XFRM netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 17
registered taskstats version 1
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/2049
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/2064
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/2080
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/2096
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/2112
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vif/0
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/console/0
drivers/rtc/hctosys.c: unable to open rtc device (rtc0)
Initalizing network drop monitor service
Freeing unused kernel memory: 1232k freed
Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 10240k
Freeing unused kernel memory: 1112k freed
Freeing unused kernel memory: 1796k freed
dracut: dracut-004-33.2.el6_0
dracut: rd_NO_LUKS: removing cryptoluks activation
dracut: rd_NO_LVM: removing LVM activation
device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3
device-mapper: ioctl: 4.20.6-ioctl (2011-02-02) initialised: dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx
udev: starting version 147
dracut: Starting plymouth daemon
dracut: rd_NO_DM: removing DM RAID activation
dracut: rd_NO_MD: removing MD RAID activation
xlblk_init: register_blkdev major: 202
blkfront: xvde1: barriers disabled
blkfront: xvdf: barriers disabled
xvdf:
unknown partition table
blkfront: xvdg: barriers disabled
xvdg: unknown partition table
blkfront: xvdh: barriers disabled
xvdh: unknown partition table
blkfront: xvdi: barriers disabled
xvdi: unknown partition table
Boot has failed, sleeping forever.
________________________________
From: Robinson Tiemuqinke <hahaha_30k@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Johnny Hughes <johnny@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 10:48 AM
Subject: Re: Any ideas?? -- Re: EC2 compatible kernel for centos 6?
Hi Johnny,
Thanks a lot. I'll upgrade kernel to the cr repository, and give it a try now.
--Guolin
________________________________
From: Johnny Hughes <johnny@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: Any ideas?? -- Re: EC2 compatible kernel for centos 6?
On 11/23/2011 11:40 AM, Robinson Tiemuqinke wrote:
> I tried several ways but still no help. The following are the output (stock Centos 6 2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64 kernel), grub works fine and it located kernel and initial ramdisk. but kernel booting faied at the very beginning...
>
> Any suggestions are more than appreciated.
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> 2011-11-23T17:19:21+0000
> Xen Minimal OS!
> start_info: 0x1890000(VA)
> nr_pages: 0x1e0000
> shared_inf: 0xb2cea000(MA)
> pt_base: 0x1893000(VA)
> nr_pt_frames: 0x11
> mfn_list: 0x990000(VA)
> mod_start: 0x0(VA)
> mod_len: 0
> flags: 0x0
> cmd_line: root=/dev/sda1 ro 4
> stack: 0x94f860-0x96f860
> MM: Init
> _text: 0x0(VA)
> _etext: 0x6000d(VA)
> _erodata: 0x78000(VA)
> _edata: 0x80b00(VA)
> stack start: 0x94f860(VA)
> _end: 0x98fe68(VA)
> start_pfn: 18a7
> max_pfn: 1e0000
> Mapping memory range 0x1c00000 - 0x1e0000000
> setting 0x0-0x78000 readonly
> skipped 0x1000
> MM: Initialise page allocator for 27a0000(27a0000)-1e0000000(1e0000000)
> MM: done
> Demand map pfns at 1e0001000-21e0001000.
> Heap resides at 21e0002000-41e0002000.
> Initialising timer interface
> Initialising console ... done.
> gnttab_table mapped at 0x1e0001000.
> Initialising scheduler
> Thread "Idle": pointer: 0x21e0002010, stack: 0x36f0000
> Initialising xenbus
> Thread "xenstore": pointer: 0x21e00027c0, stack: 0x3700000
> Dummy main: start_info=0x96f960
> Thread "main": pointer: 0x21e0002f70, stack: 0x3710000
> "main" "root=/dev/sda1" "ro" "4"
> vbd 2049 is hd0
> ******************* BLKFRONT for device/vbd/2049 **********
>
>
> backend at /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/162/2049
> Failed to read /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/162/2049/feature-barrier.
> Failed to read /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/162/2049/feature-flush-cache.
> 20971520 sectors of 512 bytes
> **************************
> vbd 2064 is hd1
> ******************* BLKFRONT for device/vbd/2064 **********
>
>
> backend at /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/162/2064
> Failed to read /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/162/2064/feature-barrier.
> Failed to read /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/162/2064/feature-flush-cache.
> 880732160 sectors of 512 bytes
> **************************
> vbd 2080 is hd2
> ******************* BLKFRONT for device/vbd/2080 **********
>
>
> backend at /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/162/2080
> Failed to read /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/162/2080/feature-barrier.
> Failed to read /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/162/2080/feature-flush-cache.
> 880732160 sectors of 512 bytes
> **************************
> [H[J
> GNU GRUB version 0.97 (7864320K lower / 0K upper memory)
>
> [m[4;2H+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+[5;2H|[5;76H|[6;2H|[6;76H|[7;2H|[7;76H|[8;2H|[8;76H|[9;2H|[9;76H|[10;2H|[10;76H|[11;2H|[11;76H|[12;2H|[12;76H|[13;2H|[13;76H|[14;2H|[14;76H|[15;2H|[15;76H|[16;2H|[16;76H|[17;2H+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+[m
> Use the ^ and v keys to select which entry is highlighted.
> Press enter to boot the selected OS, 'e' to edit the
> commands before booting, or 'c' for a command-line.[5;78H [m[7m[5;3H CentOS (2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64) [5;75H[m[m[6;3H [6;75H[m[m[7;3H [7;75H[m[m[8;3H [8;75H[m[m[9;3H
> [9;75H[m[m[10;3H [10;75H[m[m[11;3H [11;75H[m[m[12;3H [12;75H[m[m[13;3H [13;75H[m[m[14;3H
> [14;75H[m[m[15;3H [15;75H[m[m[16;3H [16;75H[m[16;78H [5;75H[23;4H The highlighted entry will be booted automatically in 5 seconds. [5;75H[23;4H The highlighted entry will be booted automatically in 4 seconds. [5;75H[23;4H The highlighted entry will be booted automatically in 3 seconds. [5;75H[23;4H The highlighted entry will be booted automatically in 2 seconds. [5;75H[23;4H The highlighted entry will be booted automatically in 1 seconds. [5;75H[H[J Booting 'CentOS (2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64)'
>
> root (hd0)
> Filesystem type is ext2fs, using whole disk
>
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64 ro root=/dev/sda1 rhgb quiet
> initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64.img
>
> close blk: backend at /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/162/2049
> close blk: backend at /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/162/2064
> close blk: backend at /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/162/2080
> PCI: Warning: Cannot find a gap in the 32bit address range
> PCI: Unassigned devices with 32bit resource registers may break!
> PCI: Fatal: No config space access function found
>
> Boot has failed, sleeping forever.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Robinson Tiemuqinke <hahaha_30k@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 3:35 PM
> Subject: EC2 compatible kernel for centos 6?
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm just scrambling to collect clues to build an Amazon AWS AMI based on Centos 6. the AWS PV-GRUB kernel loads my kernel but failed immediately. I'm using stock Centos 6 kernel 2.6.32-71.29.1.el6. and the kernel seems have xen? support? My questions are:
>
> 1, Are the centos 6 stock kernels, like kernel-2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64, EC2 compatible?
>
> 2, If the answer to the above #1 question is NO, the are the centos plus kernels, like kernel-2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.centos.plus.x86_64, EC2 compatible?
>
> 3, If the answers to both above are 'NO', then Are there any instructions to build a EC2 kernel based on kernel source RPMs?
>
>
> Any help are greatly appreciated.
>
> --Tie
I do not use amazon services, but does this help:
https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=78007
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