[Xen-users] exec of init (/sbin/init) failed!!!: No such file or directory

["Emre ERALTAN" <eeraltan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I am a newbie using RHEL 5 with Xen 3.0.3-25.el5 (integrated in this version of RHEL). So, I have included the Xen package when I installed RHEL and then I installed the kernel-xen component which has created in my boot directory 4 files : 
vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5xen, initrd-2.6.18-8.el5xen.img, config-2.6.18-8.el5xen and xen.gz-2.6.18-8.el5. I have also now 2 boot options in my grub.conf :


title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (2.6.18-8.el5xen)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /xen.gz-2.6.18-8.el5
        module /vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5xen ro root=LABEL=/ console=ttyS0,115200n81 reboot=t
        module /initrd-2.6.18-8.el5xen.img
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (2.6.18-8.el5
)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5 ro root=LABEL=/ console=ttyS0,115200n81 reboot=t
        initrd /initrd-2.6.18-8.el5.img

Then I have decided to run another RHEL 5 as guest OS and I followed tips on the internet:

First of all, I booted with the xen kernel then:

1) dd if=/dev/zero of=/xen/xen2 bs=1M count=1 seek=5120
2) mkfs -t ext3 /xen/xen2
3) mount -o loop /xen/xen2 /mnt
4) cp -vrf /{root,dev,var,etc,usr,bin,sbin,lib} /mnt
5) mkdir /mnt/{proc,sys;home,tmp}
6) umount /mnt (if you forget to do this when you call "xm create -c config_file" it gives an error due to destroyDevice() function)

Then I filled the config_file as following:

kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5xen"
ramdisk = "/boot/initrd-2.6.18-8.el5xen.img"
vif = [ '' ]
disk = [ 'file:/xen/xen2,sda2,w' ]
root = "/dev/sda2"
extra = "ro"

But a got the following error when I try to start my domU "xm create -c /etc/xen/xmexample1: 

Mounting root filesystem.
mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
Setting up other filesystems.
Setting up new root fs
setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory
no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults
setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory
setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory
Switching to new root and running init.
unmounting old /dev
unmounting old /proc
unmounting old /sys
switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

Then I have tried to create my own initrd image and used the mkinitrd command as following :
mkinirtd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-8.el5xenU 2.6.18-8.el5xen --fstab 
/mnt/etc/fstab --with xenblk --with xennet --preload xenblk --preload 
xennet
and changed the ramdisk line in my configuration file ramdisk = "/boot/initrd-2.6.18-8.el5xenU"

But now I got another error : exec of init (/sbin/init) failed!!!: No such file or directory

register_blkdev: cannot get major 8 for sd
Loading scsi_transport_sas.ko module
Loading mptscsih.ko module
Loading mptsas.ko module
Fusion MPT SAS Host driver 3.04.02
Waiting for driver initialization.
Creating root device.
Mounting root filesystem.
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Setting up other filesystems.
Setting up new root fs
no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults
Switching to new root and running init.
unmounting old /dev
unmounting old /proc
unmounting old /sys
exec of init (/sbin/init) failed!!!: No such file or directory
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

I have already checked the /sbin/init file which seems to be correct and with necessary rights.

Here is my fstab in the guest FS : 

dev/sda2                 /                  ext3            defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot1       /boot                               defaults        1 2
devpts                  /dev/pts                             devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
tmpfs                   /dev/shm                           tmpfs   defaults        0 0
proc                    /proc                                  proc    defaults        0 0
sysfs                   /sys                                  sysfs   defaults        0 0
LABEL=SWAP-sda3                  swap           swap    defaults        0 0

Does anybody know why I got this error ?

Thanks
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Emre ERALTAN
Elève ingénieur 3ème année
Electronique et Informatique Industrielle
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