John M. Johnson III wrote:
Has anyone had issues starting xen0 on a md? I have installed it a few
times now w/ and w/o raid. Anytime I have a raid1 mirror, Xen panics on
boot when trying to mount /.
It gets past waiting for /dev/md0 to appear.
Yes, I am seeing this too.
I believe the initrd is broken, or rather the /sbin/mkinitrd shell
script that generates /boot/initrd-xxxx is broken.
here is what I mean
Robbie's shell session>
paradox:~ # cd /tmp
paradox:/tmp # mkdir initrd-tree
paradox:/tmp # cd initrd-tree/
paradox:/tmp/initrd-tree # cat /boot/initrd-2.6.11.4-20a-xen | gunzip | cpio -i
^^^
8668 blocks
paradox:/tmp/initrd-tree # ls
. bin etc init proc run_init sys var
.. dev events lib root sbin tmp
paradox:/tmp/initrd-tree # ls -l lib/modules/
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Apr 29 09:36 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Apr 29 09:36 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 29 09:36 2.6.11.4-20a-default
^^^^^^^
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 29 09:36 2.6.11.4-20a-xen
paradox:/tmp/initrd-tree # grep -r raid1 init
echo "Loading /lib/modules/2.6.11.4-20a-default/kernel/drivers/md/raid1.ko"
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.11.4-20a-default/kernel/drivers/md/raid1.ko
^^^^^^^
echo "Loading kernel/drivers/md/raid1.ko"
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.11.4-20a-xen/kernel/drivers/md/raid1.ko
paradox:/tmp/initrd-tree #
I see two trees of kernel modules for both the -default and -xen
kernels and it appears that the init shell script is loading up the
modules for the wrong kernel (i.e -xen kernel, -default modules !)
I don't know how to fix mkinitrd, but I am going to try to fix up
the initrd image by hand. delete the extraneous modules and edit
the init script to load just the -xen modules.
I'll reply when I find out if this helps or not.
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