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Re: [Xen-devel] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
From: David F Barrera <dfbp@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:39:38 -0600
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Derrick,

I rebuilt the xenU kernel, with the devfs support disabled, and it makes no difference. It behaves in the same manner as the pre-built kernel that's included with the binary pack. I am at a loss. I've been able to boot a kernel under xen on a SuSE Linux 9.0 machine, so I've had a little experience with this:-)
Freeing unused kernel memory: 92k freed
Red Hat nash version 4.1.18 starting
Mounted /proc filesystem
Mounting sysfs
Creating /dev
Starting udev
Creating root device
Mounting root filesystem
mount: error 6 mounting ext3
mount: error 2 mounting none
Switching to new root
switchroot: mount failed: 22
umount /initrd/dev failed: 2
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
<0>Rebooting in 1 seconds..


David Barrera


Derrik Pates wrote:

David F Barrera wrote:

The distro I am using is RHEL 4 Beta 2 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop release 3.90 (Nahant)


/dev/hdc1 / ext2 defaults 1 1


LABEL=SWAP-hdc2 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda /media/cdrom auto pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,ro,exec,noauto,managed 0 0


# disk = [ 'phy:hda1,hda1,r' ]
disk = [ 'phy:hdc1,hdc1,r' ]


Well, the configuration of the virtual disk looks correct; the swap might disagree with it, but that shouldn't appear until later in the boot process. Perhaps it's an interaction with devfs? Do you have devfs enabled in your xenU (unprivileged domain) kernel? This gave me fits when I first began using Xen, mostly because it seems that the xenU prebuilt kernel that's included with the binary pack has devfs support enabled, and this breaks things. The only other possibility I can think of is that you need to change the block-device import to read-write.



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