Hello All. I have been attempting to get a Xen guest to boot on a Dell 2650 running FC5. The machine has a 205GB hardware RAID disk controlled by a Dell PERC 3/Di rev 1. The machine is fully updated via yum to all the stock repos. It's running the Xen package from Fedora.org Here is the fstab file for the host domain (Domain-0): ------------------------------------------------------------------------ /dev/sda2 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/sda1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 /dev/sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Here is the output of fdisk -l ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/sda2 14 1033 8193150 83 Linux /dev/sda3 1034 1294 2096482+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda4 1295 26770 204635970 5 Extended /dev/sda5 1295 26770 204635938+ 83 Linux ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I have attempted to use LVM-backed VBDs as instructed here: http://tx.downloads.xensource.com/downloads/docs/user/#SECTION03330000000000000000 Here is my config file for the LVM-backed VBD named, psdev0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ def vmid_check(var, val): val = int(val) if val <= 0: raise ValueError return val xm_vars.var('vmid', use="Virtual machine id. Integer greater than 0.", check=vmid_check) xm_vars.check() kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5xen0" ramdisk = "/boot/initrd-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5xen0.img" memory = 256 name = "VM%d" % vmid vcpus = 2 vif = [ '' ] disk = [ 'phy:vg/psdev0,sda1,w' ] dhcp="dhcp" root = "/dev/sda1" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "xm info" has this to say about the running Domain-0: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [root@xiamen xen]# xm info host : xiamen.cinteractive.com release : 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5xen0 version : #1 SMP Mon Sep 11 02:05:21 EDT 2006 machine : i686 nr_cpus : 4 nr_nodes : 1 sockets_per_node : 2 cores_per_socket : 1 threads_per_core : 2 cpu_mhz : 2790 hw_caps : 00000000:00000000:bfebfbff:00000000:00000000:00000080:00004400 total_memory : 3840 free_memory : 3674 xen_major : 3 xen_minor : 0 xen_extra : -unstable xen_caps : xen-3.0-x86_32 platform_params : virt_start=0xfc000000 xen_changeset : unavailable cc_compiler : gcc version 4.1.1 20060525 (Red Hat 4.1.1-1) cc_compile_by : brewbuilder cc_compile_domain : build.redhat.com cc_compile_date : Mon Sep 11 01:13:36 EDT 2006 Here's what I see when I run, "xm create -c psdev0 vmid=1" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- i8042.c: No controller found. mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: bitmap version 4.39 TCP bic registered Initializing IPsec netlink socket NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 Using IPI No-Shortcut mode XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/2049 XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vif/0 md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. VFS: Cannot open root device "sda1" or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) No matter what I set the root= option to be, the result is the same. Oh, one last config file: my grub.conf from Domain-0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title XenCore (2.6.17-1.2187_FC5xen0) root (hd0,0) kernel /xen.gz-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 module /vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5xen0 ro root=/dev/sda2 ro console=tty0 module /initrd-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5xen0.img title Fedora Core (2.6.17-1.2187_FC5smp) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5smp ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /initrd-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5smp.img title Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp.img Any advice would be welcome. -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
