Re: [Xen-users] Why I can not boot xen without initrd? Please help.

["Itamar Reis Peixoto" <itamar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

because kernel to access the disk and your ext3, reiserfs etc... needs to
bem compiled with your ide-driver and sata driver and with your filesytem
driver.

if this is compiled in the kernel the you don't need a initrd

if this is compiled as module, then you need a initrd to load the module,
because without the module you can't access your disk to continue the boot 
process.
I am sorry for my bad english.



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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "kanour-xen" <xen@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 2:13 PM
Subject: [Xen-users] Why I can not boot xen without initrd? Please help.


> Hi.
>
> I have SATA HDDs in software raid1 (mdadm). debian amd64
> Why I cannot boot xen without initrd?
> I get error:
> VFS: Cannot open root device "md2" or unknown-block(0,0)
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> unknown-block(0,0)
>
> Thank you for any help. I am getting crazy about this.
>
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