I can offer some input from my own experiences regarding mounting root.
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Walter Coole <WCoole@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I found that the default initrd did not contain the xenblk driver and so it could not access the root filesystem. See here:
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2008-03/msg00000.html
You might even want to use the --preload option of mkinitrd. My exact mkinitrd was:
# mkinitrd -v --preload=sd_mod --preload=xenblk --with=xennet --with=xenblktap\
--with=xenbus_be /tmp/test `uname -r`
Then I copied /tmp/test to /boot/initrd-2.6.21.7-2.fc8xen.img. This worked for me - YMMV.
Cheers,
Fred.
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
I changed the root clause to:
root = "/dev/xvda1 ro"
, which changed the error to:
VFS: Cannot open root device "xvda1" or unknown-block(0,0)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
I'm unclear whether the problem is in creating the virtual disk or in
being able to mount it after it's been created.
I found that the default initrd did not contain the xenblk driver and so it could not access the root filesystem. See here:
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2008-03/msg00000.html
You might even want to use the --preload option of mkinitrd. My exact mkinitrd was:
# mkinitrd -v --preload=sd_mod --preload=xenblk --with=xennet --with=xenblktap\
--with=xenbus_be /tmp/test `uname -r`
Then I copied /tmp/test to /boot/initrd-2.6.21.7-2.fc8xen.img. This worked for me - YMMV.
Cheers,
Fred.
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