[Xen-devel] Re: domU kernel panic with root fs

[Björn Sessler <bjoern.sessler@xxxxxx>]

Dan Cardamore schrieb:

> > Hi Bjoern,
> >
> > I'm having the same problem that you posted on xen-devel a week ago
> > regarding the error message "Cannot open root device "sda5" or
> > unknown-block(8,5)".
> >
> > Did you ever get that solved?
> >
> > Dan
> > --
> > Dan Cardamore
> > dan@xxxxxx
> I managed to figure out that this is related to devfs.  Whenever I
> have devfs support compiled in it panics.  This is even if I don't
> mount devfs (devfs=mount) and don't have "Automatically mount at boot 
> time" in the kernel config.
>
> Anyone know why?  This is a significant nuisance if you're running a
> gentoo system.

Hi Dan,

ehhm, i remember now there was an issue with devfs in my fist 
installation. did i add gentoo=nodevfs as a boot option to enable gentoo 
to work without devfs? but i thought i added only to xen0, because xen 
1.2 didn't cope with devfs in this version. i will have a look on that 
tomorrow or friday when at home and give it a try.
Regards,
Björn



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