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Re: [Xen-users] Xen Kernel cant find root device - 4 days and no progres
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 03:03:21PM +0100, Robert Dunkley wrote:
> Hi Pasi,
>
>
> I'm trying to build a Dom0 kernel with Solarflare NIC pass-through support
> (It allows direct access to a single NIC from multiple DomUs), the standard
> Centos
> kernels don't seem to include this but the 2.6.18 Xen kernel and newer
> standard Linux
> kernels have the required options in menu config.
>
Ok.
> I have considered shifting to Ubuntu but this is less than ideal because I'm
> not at all
> familiar with Ubuntu and other software we use is not easy to setup or
> supported under Ubuntu.
>
Yep.
> I will sort out a serial console to the system and copy and paste the output
> to the list.
>
That helps to figure out the problem.
-- Pasi
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Rob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pasi Kärkkäinen [mailto:pasik@xxxxxx]
> Sent: 17 August 2009 14:50
> To: Robert Dunkley
> Cc: Xen User-List
> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Xen Kernel cant find root device - 4 days and no
> progress :(
>
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 01:10:35PM +0100, Robert Dunkley wrote:
> > I'm still trying to compile my own Xen kernel under Centos 5.2 but boot
> > always fails with a cannot find volume group "VolGroup00". I have tried
> > using both the xen.org 3.41 with 2.6.18.8-xen kernel and using 2.6.30.2
> > with patch and Xen 3.41. The error is the same, I really don't know what
> > causes it. I am compiling in support for LVM and device mapper etc. Does
> > anyone know what might cause this? Any hints would be much appreciated.
> >
> > Compile of standard 2.6.30.4 kernel works fine.
> >
> > I'm considering swapping to Ubuntu or Slackware just avoid this compile
> > issue.
> >
>
> This doesn't sound like compilation issue at all.
> It sounds like initrd or configuration issue.
>
> Some questions:
>
> - You're trying to build/compile a custom dom0 kernel? or are you talking
> about domU kernel?
> - Can't you use the centos 5.3 kernel-xen?
> - Please paste your boot/console log so we can figure out why your boot
> fails.
> If it's dom0 kernel, then you need to set up a serial console to capture
> the boot/console output.
>
> -- Pasi
>
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Rob
> >
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