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Re: [Xen-devel] ttylinux unable to mount root fs on gentoo

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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] ttylinux unable to mount root fs on gentoo
From: Mark Williamson <Mark.Williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:41:34 +0000
Cc: Karl Higgins <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Interesting...

Does /dev/sda1 exist in dom0?  (I'm guessing not as you'll be using udev or 
devfs).  What happens if you specify 0801 instead of /dev/sda1 in your config 
file?

Cheers,
Mark

On Saturday 29 January 2005 05:56, Karl Higgins wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a gentoo box running xen 2.0.3 which is unable to boot the ttylinux
> image from sourceforge. I compiled xen, xen0, and xenU from sources.
>
> I have attempted to boot the xenU kernel with / in a file and a logical
> volume and get the same message either way.
>
> error message:
>
> VFS: Cannot open root device "sda1" or unknown-block(8,1)
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> unknown-block(8,1)
>
> config file passed to "xm create ...":
>
> kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-xenU"
> memory = 64
> name = "ttylinux"
> nics = 1
> #disk = [ 'phy:hdX_vg/ttylinux_lv,sda1,w' ]
> disk = [ 'file:/root/ttylinux-xen,sda1,w' ]
> root = "/dev/sda1 ro"
> restart = "never"
>
> --
> karl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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