hi experts I used the redhat RHEL6 boot with initrd but it failed, can sb help me ( I have tried /dev/ram /dev/ram0 and initrd-2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64kdump.img) [root@localhost boot]# /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm --enable-kvm -smp 8 -m 1024 -net nic,model=virtio -net tap,script=/etc/qemu-ifup -initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64.img -kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64 -append "root=/dev/ram rw console=ttyS0,115200 " -nographic Google, Inc. Serial Graphics Adapter 07/26/11 SGABIOS $Id: sgabios.S 8 2010-04-22 00:03:40Z nlaredo $ (mockbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) Tue Jul 26 15:05:08 UTC 2011 4 0 SeaBIOS (version seabios-0.6.1.2-19.el6) gPXE (http://etherboot.org) - 00:03.0 CA00 PCI2.10 PnP BBS PMM3FE0@10 CA00 Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)... ok Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset Initializing cgroup subsys cpu Linux version 2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64 (mockbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.4.6 20120305 (Red Hat 4.4.6-4) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Wed Jun 13 18:24:36 EDT 2012 Command line: root=/dev/ram rw console=ttyS0,115200 KERNEL supported cpus: Intel GenuineIntel AMD AuthenticAMD Centaur CentaurHauls Disabled fast string operations BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fffd000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000003fffd000 - 0000000040000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fffbc000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) DMI 2.4 present. SMBIOS version 2.4 @ 0xFD9D0 last_pfn = 0x3fffd max_arch_pfn = 0x400000000 PAT not supported by CPU. init_memory_mapping: 0000000000000000-000000003fffd000 RAMDISK: 3f0d0000 - 3ffef305 ACPI: RSDP 00000000000fd9a0 00014 (v00 BOCHS ) ACPI: RSDT 000000003fffd320 00030 (v01 BOCHS BXPCRSDT 00000001 BXPC 00000001) ACPI: FACP 000000003ffffd10 00074 (v01 BOCHS BXPCFACP 00000001 BXPC 00000001) ACPI: DSDT 000000003fffd7c0 024FD (v01 BXPC BXDSDT 00000001 INTL 20090123) ACPI: FACS 000000003ffffcc0 00040 ACPI: SSDT 000000003fffd470 00345 (v01 BOCHS BXPCSSDT 00000001 BXPC 00000001) ACPI: APIC 000000003fffd350 000B0 (v01 BOCHS BXPCAPIC 00000001 BXPC 00000001) No NUMA configuration found Faking a node at 0000000000000000-000000003fffd000 Bootmem setup node 0 0000000000000000-000000003fffd000 NODE_DATA [0000000000009000 - 000000000003cfff] bootmap [000000000003d000 - 0000000000044fff] pages 8 (7 early reservations) ==> bootmem [0000000000 - 003fffd000] #0 [0000000000 - 0000001000] BIOS data page ==> [0000000000 - 0000001000] #1 [0000006000 - 0000008000] TRAMPOLINE ==> [0000006000 - 0000008000] #2 [0001000000 - 0002012024] TEXT DATA BSS ==> [0001000000 - 0002012024] #3 [003f0d0000 - 003ffef305] RAMDISK ==> [003f0d0000 - 003ffef305] #4 [000009f000 - 0000100000] BIOS reserved ==> [000009f000 - 0000100000] #5 [0002013000 - 0002013059] BRK ==> [0002013000 - 0002013059] #6 [0000008000 - 0000009000] PGTABLE ==> [0000008000 - 0000009000] found SMP MP-table at [ffff8800000fd9f0] fd9f0 kvm-clock: Using msrs 4b564d01 and 4b564d00 kvm-clock: cpu 0, msr 0:1c1f601, boot clock Zone PFN ranges: DMA 0x00000001 -> 0x00001000 DMA32 0x00001000 -> 0x00100000 Normal 0x00100000 -> 0x00100000 Movable zone start PFN for each node early_node_map[2] active PFN ranges 0: 0x00000001 -> 0x0000009f 0: 0x00000100 -> 0x0003fffd ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0xb008 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x02] enabled) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x03] lapic_id[0x03] enabled) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x04] lapic_id[0x04] enabled) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x05] lapic_id[0x05] enabled) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x06] lapic_id[0x06] enabled) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x07] lapic_id[0x07] enabled) ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0xff] dfl dfl lint[0x1]) ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x08] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0]) IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 8, version 17, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23 ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl) ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 5 global_irq 5 high level) ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level) ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 10 global_irq 10 high level) ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 11 global_irq 11 high level) Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information SMP: Allowing 8 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs PM: Registered nosave memory: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000 PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000f0000 PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 Allocating PCI resources starting at 40000000 (gap: 40000000:bffbc000) Booting paravirtualized kernel on KVM NR_CPUS:4096 nr_cpumask_bits:8 nr_cpu_ids:8 nr_node_ids:1 PERCPU: Embedded 31 pages/cpu @ffff880002200000 s94424 r8192 d24360 u262144 pcpu-alloc: s94424 r8192 d24360 u262144 alloc=1*2097152 pcpu-alloc: [0] 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 kvm-clock: cpu 0, msr 0:2216601, primary cpu clock kvm-stealtime: cpu 0, msr 220e840 Built 1 zonelists in Node order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 258358 Policy zone: DMA32 Kernel command line: root=/dev/ram rw console=ttyS0,115200 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) Checking aperture... No AGP bridge found Memory: 1000392k/1048564k available (5151k kernel code, 392k absent, 47780k reserved, 7166k data, 1260k init) Hierarchical RCU implementation. NR_IRQS:33024 nr_irqs:472 Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 console [ttyS0] enabled allocated 8388608 bytes of page_cgroup please try 'cgroup_disable=memory' option if you don't want memory cgroups Detected 2693.506 MHz processor. Calibrating delay loop (skipped) preset value.. 5387.01 BogoMIPS (lpj=2693506) pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301 Security Framework initialized SELinux: Initializing. Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 256 Initializing cgroup subsys ns Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct Initializing cgroup subsys memory Initializing cgroup subsys devices Initializing cgroup subsys freezer Initializing cgroup subsys net_cls Initializing cgroup subsys blkio Initializing cgroup subsys perf_event Initializing cgroup subsys net_prio Disabled fast string operations mce: CPU supports 10 MCE banks alternatives: switching to unfair spinlock ACPI: Core revision 20090903 ftrace: converting mcount calls to 0f 1f 44 00 00 ftrace: allocating 21015 entries in 83 pages Setting APIC routing to flat ..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1 CPU0: Intel QEMU Virtual CPU version (cpu64-rhel6) stepping 03 Performance Events: Broken PMU hardware detected, using software events only. NMI watchdog disabled (cpu0): hardware events not enabled Booting Node 0, Processors #1 kvm-clock: cpu 1, msr 0:2256601, secondary cpu clock kvm-stealtime: cpu 1, msr 224e840 Disabled fast string operations #2 kvm-clock: cpu 2, msr 0:2296601, secondary cpu clock kvm-stealtime: cpu 2, msr 228e840 Disabled fast string operations #3 kvm-clock: cpu 3, msr 0:22d6601, secondary cpu clock kvm-stealtime: cpu 3, msr 22ce840 Disabled fast string operations #4 kvm-clock: cpu 4, msr 0:2316601, secondary cpu clock kvm-stealtime: cpu 4, msr 230e840 Disabled fast string operations #5 kvm-clock: cpu 5, msr 0:2356601, secondary cpu clock kvm-stealtime: cpu 5, msr 234e840 Disabled fast string operations #6 kvm-clock: cpu 6, msr 0:2396601, secondary cpu clock kvm-stealtime: cpu 6, msr 238e840 Disabled fast string operations #7 Ok. kvm-clock: cpu 7, msr 0:23d6601, secondary cpu clock kvm-stealtime: cpu 7, msr 23ce840 Disabled fast string operations Brought up 8 CPUs Total of 8 processors activated (43096.09 BogoMIPS). devtmpfs: initialized regulator: core version 0.5 NET: Registered protocol family 16 ACPI: bus type pci registered PCI: Using configuration type 1 for base access bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0 ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: (supports S0 S5) ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing ACPI: No dock devices found. HEST: Table not found. PCI: Ignoring host bridge windows from ACPI; if necessary, use "pci=use_crs" and report a bug ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (domain 0000 [bus 00-ff]) pci 0000:00:01.3: quirk: [io 0xb000-0xb03f] claimed by PIIX4 ACPI pci 0000:00:01.3: quirk: [io 0xb100-0xb10f] claimed by PIIX4 SMB ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 5 *10 11) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 5 *10 11) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 5 10 *11) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 5 10 *11) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKS] (IRQs 9) *0 vgaarb: device added: PCI:0000:00:02.0,decodes=io+mem,owns=io+mem,locks=none vgaarb: loaded vgaarb: bridge control possible 0000:00:02.0 SCSI subsystem initialized usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs usbcore: registered new interface driver hub usbcore: registered new device driver usb PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing NetLabel: Initializing NetLabel: domain hash size = 128 NetLabel: protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4 NetLabel: unlabeled traffic allowed by default Switching to clocksource kvm-clock pnp: PnP ACPI init ACPI: bus type pnp registered pnp: PnP ACPI: found 7 devices ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536) TCP reno registered NET: Registered protocol family 1 pci 0000:00:00.0: Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers pci 0000:00:01.0: PIIX3: Enabling Passive Release pci 0000:00:01.0: Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs... Freeing initrd memory: 15484k freed audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) type=2000 audit(1346348707.381:1): initialized HugeTLB registered 2 MB page size, pre-allocated 0 pages VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.2 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes) msgmni has been set to 1984 alg: No test for stdrng (krng) ksign: Installing public key data Loading keyring - Added public key 2E8E5C39AF9EC7F8 - User ID: Red Hat, Inc. (Kernel Module GPG key) - Added public key D4A26C9CCD09BEDA - User ID: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Driver Update Program <secalert@xxxxxxxxxx> Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 252) io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered (default) pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5 pciehp: PCI Express Hot Plug Controller Driver version: 0.4 acpiphp: ACPI Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.5 acpiphp: Slot [1] registered acpiphp: Slot [2] registered acpiphp: Slot [3] registered acpiphp: Slot [4] registered acpiphp: Slot [5] registered acpiphp: Slot [6] registered acpiphp: Slot [7] registered acpiphp: Slot [8] registered acpiphp: Slot [9] registered acpiphp: Slot [10] registered acpiphp: Slot [11] registered acpiphp: Slot [12] registered acpiphp: Slot [13] registered acpiphp: Slot [14] registered acpiphp: Slot [15] registered acpiphp: Slot [16] registered acpiphp: Slot [17] registered acpiphp: Slot [18] registered acpiphp: Slot [19] registered acpiphp: Slot [20] registered acpiphp: Slot [21] registered acpiphp: Slot [22] registered acpiphp: Slot [23] registered acpiphp: Slot [24] registered acpiphp: Slot [25] registered acpiphp: Slot [26] registered acpiphp: Slot [27] registered acpiphp: Slot [28] registered acpiphp: Slot [29] registered acpiphp: Slot [30] registered acpiphp: Slot [31] registered input: Power Button as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input0 ACPI: Power Button [PWRF] ERST: Table is not found! GHES: HEST is not enabled! Non-volatile memory driver v1.3 Linux agpgart interface v0.103 crash memory driver: version 1.1 Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled ÿserial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 0) is a 16550A 00:06: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A brd: module loaded loop: module loaded input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /devices/virtual/input/input1 Fixed MDIO Bus: probed ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver ohci_hcd: USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver uhci_hcd: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBD,PNP0f13:MOU] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12 serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice rtc_cmos 00:01: RTC can wake from S4 rtc_cmos 00:01: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0 input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input2 rtc0: alarms up to one day, 114 bytes nvram cpuidle: using governor ladder cpuidle: using governor menu EFI Variables Facility v0.08 2004-May-17 usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid usbhid: v2.6:USB HID core driver TCP cubic registered Initializing XFRM netlink socket NET: Registered protocol family 17 registered taskstats version 1 rtc_cmos 00:01: setting system clock to 2012-08-30 17:45:06 UTC (1346348706) Initalizing network drop monitor service Freeing unused kernel memory: 1260k freed Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 10240k Freeing unused kernel memory: 972k freed Freeing unused kernel memory: 1732k freed dracut: dracut-004-283.el6 device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3 device-mapper: ioctl: 4.22.6-ioctl (2011-10-19) initialised: dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx udev: starting version 147 dracut: Starting plymouth daemon scsi0 : ata_piix scsi1 : ata_piix ata1: PATA max MWDMA2 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0xc000 irq 14 ata2: PATA max MWDMA2 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xc008 irq 15 input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input3 ata2.00: ATAPI: QEMU DVD-ROM, 0.12.1, max UDMA/100 ata2.00: configured for MWDMA2 scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM QEMU QEMU DVD-ROM 0.12 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11 virtio-pci 0000:00:03.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, high) -> IRQ 11 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 4x/4x xa/form2 tray Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 Refined TSC clocksource calibration: 2693.518 MHz. dracut Warning: No root device "block:/dev/ram" found dracut Warning: Boot has failed. To debug this issue add "rdshell" to the kernel command line. dracut Warning: Signal caught! dracut Warning: Boot has failed. To debug this issue add "rdshell" to the kernel command line. Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64 #1 Call Trace: [<ffffffff814fd11a>] ? panic+0xa0/0x168 [<ffffffff81070bd2>] ? do_exit+0x862/0x870 [<ffffffff8117ca75>] ? fput+0x25/0x30 [<ffffffff81070c38>] ? do_group_exit+0x58/0xd0 [<ffffffff81070cc7>] ? sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20 [<ffffffff8100b0f2>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b -- 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