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RE: [Xen-users] Cannot open root device "sda1" or unknown-block ..

To: "'Steven Timm'" <timm@xxxxxxxx>, "'Fabian Zimmermann'" <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Cannot open root device "sda1" or unknown-block ..
From: "Pallab Chakrabarty" <pchakrabarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 08:38:18 -0500 (CDT)
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Hi,

There's a problem with /root partition.. All these images has a different
partition other than /dev/sda1 ..

So did a -loop & update fstab make these image run..

Thanks for the attention ..



- regards
   Pallab




-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Timm [mailto:timm@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 11:42 PM
To: Fabian Zimmermann
Cc: Pallab Chakrabarty; Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Cannot open root device "sda1" or unknown-block
..

On Tue, 5 May 2009, Fabian Zimmermann wrote:

> Hi,
>>
>> VFS: Cannot open root device "sda1" 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)
>>
> to solve this you may install a "xen"-kernel ( linux-image-2.6-xen* ) or

> change "sda" to "xvda" (
> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Kernel.org_Linux_on_Xen )
>
> Fabian
>

My experience is that either "sda" or "xvda" work in redhat 5-like domU's
but for redhat 4-like domU's you have to use xvda (that is, when dom0 is
also redhat5-like).  Is there any reason
why that would be?

Steve Timm


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