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Re: [Xen-devel] VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0)

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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0)
From: Mark Williamson <Mark.Williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:08:08 +0000
Cc: "Eric S. Johansson" <esj@xxxxxxxxxx>
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What distro are you running in the domain?

Cheers,
Mark

On Tuesday 22 February 2005 05:17, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> google yields nothing except for indicating that it is a boot loader
> problem.
>
> my dom0 partition is on a 9 GB SCSI disk drive.  I have a raid1 device
> (md0) which I have created a series of partitions via lvm2. on boot,
>
> xm create /etc/xen/xm-single -c
>
> I get what looks like a normal boot until
>
> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 8192)
> NET: Registered protocol family 1
> NET: Registered protocol family 17
> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> unknown-block(1,0)
>   <0>Rebooting in 1 seconds..
>
> the configuration file defines the disk as:
>
> disk = [ 'phy:bigraid/root_harvee,sda1,w' ]
>
> I've tried root definitions
>
> root = "/dev/sda1 ro"
>
> and no root definitions.
>
> a pointer to the documentation I should be reading would be helpful.
>
> ---eric


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