On 10/11/07, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 10:43:22AM -0700, Haifeng He wrote: > > Hi, All > > > > I followed the steps in Fedora7VirtQuickStart to install Xen on Fedora 7. > > I downloaded couples of file system image from http://jailtime.org/. However, > > every time I tried to create guest OS using those file system image, I got error > > messages: > > > > 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) > > > > An example of Xen configure is: > > > > kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-2936.fc7xen" > > You don't have a initrd image that contains the block device and > filesystem modules. > > I expect the images you have downloaded have a valid grub configuration > inside it. If they have it, you can use: > > bootloader = "/usr/bin/pygrub" > > Instead of specifying a kernel that is outside the disk image. Pygrub > will be able to read grub configuration and kernel/initrd images from > inside the disk image. > Thank you for your reply. I tried to include bootloader = "/usr/bin/pygrub" in my configuration but I got an error message "Error: Boot loader didn't return any data!". I was able to boot the same image on a Ubuntu system with Xen installed from source. Do I need to do something special on Fedora-Xen? Or there is a way that I can add block device and filesystem modules into the initrd image? Thanks Haifeng > -- > Eduardo > -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
