On Wed, 04/02 11:32, saurabh agarwal wrote: > We have compiled a new linux kernel for a guest VM with > CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK=y. But it doesn't boot and kernel panics. To kernel > command line I tried passing root=/dev/vda and root=/dev/vda1 but same > kernel panic comes every time. VIRTIO_NET worked fine. > But with VIRTIO_BLK we see the below kernel panic. Can someone suggest > what could be going wrong? Kernel version in VM is 3.0.76. "QEMU > emulator version 1.3.0" > > Kernel command line is > kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/vda1 early_printk=serial console=hvc0 > console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8 e1000.disable_vlan_offload=1 > initrd /boot/initramfs.cpio > > Below is a portion of GuestVM Kernel Console logs while booting up > brd: module loaded^M > vda: vda1 vda2 vda3 vda4^M > scsi0 : ata_piix^M > scsi1 : ata_piix^M > ata1: PATA max MWDMA2 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0xc180 irq 14 > ata2: PATA max MWDMA2 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xc188 irq 15 > ................ > ................... > ............... > > VFS: Cannot open root device "vda" or unknown-block(253,0)^M > Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions: > fd00 8388608 vda driver: virtio_blk > fd01 7340032 vda1 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 > fd02 512000 vda2 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 > fd03 535552 vda3 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 Does /dev/vda1 have a root filesystem? Looks like the partitions on vda is correctly detected, so the virtio-blk driver already works. Thanks, Fam > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(253,0) > > Can someone suggest what could be wrong? > Regards, > > Saurabh > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
