>From the log, the real reason is because:
[...
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
...]
An solution is to mount your domU harddisk firstly, then copy your Xen0:/dev/*
to domU:/dev/
After above 2 steps, that domU should be created without Ramdisk option. Well,
Ramdisk is harmless. :)
Best Regards,
Yongkang (Kangkang) 永康
>-----Original Message-----
>From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Liang Yang
>Sent: 2006年9月12日 3:14
>To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [Xen-users] Is RAMDISK required for domU boot?
>
>Hi,
>
>I found one weird thing: I heard RAMDISK is not required for domU, but it
>seems I have to add RAMDISK to my domU config file, otherwiese the domU
>will hang up when it is booting. Please see the message below, the domU
>booting hangs up after "Continuing..."
>
>Does anyone have any clue for this issue? BTW, xen-friendly glibc is already
>installed.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Liang
>
>---Begin of domU boot message---------------------------------
> xen]# xm create domain1.xm -c
>Using config file "domain1.xm".
>Started domain domain1
>Linux version 2.6.16-xen (root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 3.4.6
>20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-3)) #1 SMP Fri Sep 8 18:40:45 MST 2006
>BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
> Xen: 0000000000000000 - 0000000020000000 (usable)
>0MB HIGHMEM available.
>520MB LOWMEM available.
>ACPI in unprivileged domain disabled
>IRQ lockup detection disabled
>Built 1 zonelists
>Kernel command line: ip=:1.2.3.4::::eth0:dhcp root=/dev/sda1 ro 3
>Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
>Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
>Initializing CPU#0
>PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes)
>Xen reported: 2666.662 MHz processor.
>Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
>Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
>Software IO TLB disabled
>vmalloc area: e1000000-fb7fe000, maxmem 33ffe000
>Memory: 514048k/532480k available (2250k kernel code, 9780k reserved,
>708k
>data, 172k init, 0k highmem)
>Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
>Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5334.98 BogoMIPS
>(lpj=26674902)
>Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
>Capability LSM initialized
>Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
>CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
>CPU: L2 cache: 4096K
>CPU: L3 cache: 4096K
>Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
>Brought up 1 CPUs
>migration_cost=0
>Grant table initialized
>NET: Registered protocol family 16
>Brought up 1 CPUs
>PCI: setting up Xen PCI frontend stub
>ACPI: Subsystem revision 20060127
>ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
>Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
>xen_mem: Initialising balloon driver.
>usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
>usbcore: registered new driver hub
>PCI: System does not support PCI
>PCI: System does not support PCI
>IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14-xen <tigran@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
>Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
>Initializing Cryptographic API
>io scheduler noop registered
>io scheduler anticipatory registered (default)
>io scheduler deadline registered
>io scheduler cfq registered
>PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
>i8042.c: No controller found.
>RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
>Xen virtual console successfully installed as tty1
>Event-channel device installed.
>blkif_init: reqs=64, pages=704, mmap_vstart=0xdf800000
>netfront: Initialising virtual ethernet driver.
>Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
>ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
>idebus=xx
>Registering block device major 8
>ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
>usbmon: debugfs is not available
>usbcore: registered new driver libusual
>mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
>NET: Registered protocol family 2
>IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
>TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
>TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
>TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
>TCP reno registered
>Initializing IPsec netlink socket
>NET: Registered protocol family 1
>NET: Registered protocol family 17
>NET: Registered protocol family 8
>NET: Registered protocol family 20
>Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
>EXT2-fs warning (device sda1): ext2_fill_super: mounting ext3 filesystem as
>ext2
>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
>Freeing unused kernel memory: 172k freed
>Warning: unable to open an initial console.
>
> ***************************************************************
> ***************************************************************
> ** WARNING: Currently emulating unsupported memory accesses **
> ** in /lib/tls glibc libraries. The emulation is **
> ** slow. To ensure full performance you should **
> ** install a 'xen-friendly' (nosegneg) version of **
> ** the library, or disable tls support by executing **
> ** the following as root: **
> ** mv /lib/tls /lib/tls.disabled **
> ** Offending process: init (pid=1) **
> ***************************************************************
> ***************************************************************
>
>Continuing...
>
>--End of domU boot message----------------------------------------
>
>---Begin of my domU config file--------------------
>kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6-xenU"
>ramdisk = "/boot/initrd-2.6-xen.img"
>memory = 512
>name = "domain1"
>extra = "3"
>vif = [ 'bridge=xenbr0' ]
>dhcp = "dhcp"
>disk = ['phy:/dev/VG_Dom6_Linux/LogVol00,sda1,w' ]
>root = "/dev/sda1 ro"
>
>---End of my domU config file--------------------
>
>
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