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 Hi Folks, 
I create a file backed vbd to boot a guest VM as described in the Xen's user manual in section 'Using File-backed VBDs". The Dom0 and the VBD contain Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10 (X86_64). I am not able to boot the guest VM. During the boot process the INIT process generates an error saying 
 
  
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Loading jbd Loading ext3 Waiting for device /dev/sda1 to appear:  ok rootfs: major=8 minor=1 devn=2049 fsck 1.38 (30-Jun-2005) [/bin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /] fsck.ext3 -a /dev/sda1  /dev/sda1: clean, 85082/524288 files, 665367/1048576 blocks
 fsck succeeded. Mounting root device read-write. Mounting root /dev/sda1 kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
 INIT: version 2.86 booting INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/boot" INIT: Entering runlevel: 3 INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty"
 INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" 
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I am using the latest unstable Xen tree. Below is the full log. Thanks a lot for any help. 
Sanjay 
  
bladespp-04:~ # dd if=/dev/zero of=vmdisk bs=1k seek=4096k count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 1024 bytes (1.0 kB) copied, 8.1e-05 seconds, 12.6 MB/s bladespp-04:~ #  bladespp-04:~ # mkfs -t ext3 vmdisk 
 mke2fs 1.38 (30-Jun-2005) vmdisk is not a block special device. Proceed anyway? (y,n) y Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=4096 (log=2) Fragment size=4096 (log=2) 524288 inodes, 1048576 blocks
 52428 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=0 32 block groups 32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group 16384 inodes per group Superblock backups stored on blocks:          32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736
 
Writing inode tables: done                             Creating journal (32768 blocks): done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done 
This filesystem will be automatically checked every 37 mounts or 180 days, whichever comes first.  Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.
  
bladespp-04:~ # mount -o loop vmdisk /mnt/ bladespp-04:~ # cp -ax /{root,dev,var,etc,usr,bin,sbin,lib} /mnt bladespp-04:~ # mkdir /mnt/{proc,sys,home,tmp} bladespp-04:~ # cat /mnt/etc/fstab  
/dev/sda1            /                    ext3       defaults              1 1 proc                 /proc                proc       defaults              0 0 sysfs                /sys                 sysfs      noauto                0 0
 usbfs                /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      noauto                0 0 devpts               /dev/pts             devpts     mode=0620,gid=5       0 0
  bladespp-04:~ # umount /mnt/ bladespp-04:~ #  
The VM configuration file: bladespp-04:~ # cat xmexample1 
  # Kernel image file. kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6-xen" 
# Optional ramdisk. ramdisk = "/boot/initrd-2.6-xen.img" 
memory = 256 
name = "ExampleDomain" 
vif = [ '' ] 
disk = [ 'tap:aio:/root/vmdisk,sda1,w' ]
  # Set root device. root = "/dev/sda1" 
# Sets runlevel 4. extra = "3" 
bladespp-04:~ #  bladespp-04:~ # xm list Name                                      ID   Mem VCPUs      State   Time(s) Domain-0                                   0  7646     2     r-----    213.1 bladespp-04:~ # xm create -c xmexample1 
 Using config file "./xmexample1". Started domain ExampleDomain Bootdata ok (command line is root=/dev/sda1 3) Linux version 2.6.18-xen (sanjaykumar4@bladespp-03
) (gcc version 4.1.0 (SUSE Linux)) #1 SMP Thu May 24 22:32:35 PDT 2007 BIOS-provided physical RAM map:  Xen: 0000000000000000 - 0000000010800000 (usable) No mptable found. Built 1 zonelists.  Total pages: 67584
 Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda1 3 Initializing CPU#0 PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 16384 bytes) Xen reported: 2605.904 MHz processor. Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
 Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Software IO TLB disabled Memory: 245608k/270336k available (2001k kernel code, 16224k reserved, 870k data, 172k init) Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 
5213.10 BogoMIPS (lpj=26065536) Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized Capability LSM initialized Mount-cache hash table entries: 256 CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 1024K (64 bytes/line)
 SMP alternatives: switching to UP code Freeing SMP alternatives: 24k freed Brought up 1 CPUs migration_cost=0 checking if image is initramfs... it is Freeing initrd memory: 6784k freed NET: Registered protocol family 16
 Brought up 1 CPUs PCI: setting up Xen PCI frontend stub ACPI: Interpreter disabled. Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled xen_mem: Initialising balloon driver. PCI: System does not support PCI
 PCI: System does not support PCI NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
 TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 8192) TCP reno registered IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14a-xen <tigran@xxxxxxxxxxx> audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
 audit(1180465319.472:1): initialized VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes) Initializing Cryptographic API io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered
 io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered (default) rtc: IRQ 8 is not free. Non-volatile memory driver v1.2 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
 Xen virtual console successfully installed as tty1 Event-channel device installed. netfront: Initialising virtual ethernet driver. Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
 PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly. i8042.c: No controller found. mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: bitmap version 4.39
 NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 xen-vbd: registered block device major 8 netfront: device eth0 has copying receive path. XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/console/0
 Freeing unused kernel memory: 172k freed Starting udevd Creating devices Loading jbd Loading ext3 Waiting for device /dev/sda1 to appear:  ok rootfs: major=8 minor=1 devn=2049 fsck 1.38 (30-Jun-2005)
 [/bin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /] fsck.ext3 -a /dev/sda1  /dev/sda1: clean, 85084/524288 files, 673052/1048576 blocks fsck succeeded. Mounting root device read-write. Mounting root /dev/sda1 kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
 EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. INIT: version 2.86 booting INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/boot" INIT: Entering runlevel: 3 INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc"
 INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty"
 INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty"
 INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty"
 INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty"
 INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty"
 INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty"
 INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty"
 INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty"
 INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
 INIT: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty"
 INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty"
 INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty"
 INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty"
 INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" INIT: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
 INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel bladespp-04:~ #  
bladespp-04:~ # xm info host                   : bladespp-04 release                : 2.6.18-xen version                : #1 SMP Thu May 24 22:32:35 PDT 2007 machine                : x86_64 nr_cpus                : 2
 nr_nodes               : 1 sockets_per_node       : 2 cores_per_socket       : 1 threads_per_core       : 1 cpu_mhz                : 2605 hw_caps                : 078bfbff:e3d3fbff:00000000:00000010:00000001
 total_memory           : 8023 free_memory            : 0 xen_major              : 3 xen_minor              : 0 xen_extra              : -unstable xen_caps               : xen-3.0-x86_64 xen-3.0-x86_32p 
 xen_scheduler          : credit xen_pagesize           : 4096 platform_params        : virt_start=0xffff800000000000 xen_changeset          : Thu May 17 11:42:46 2007 +0100 15080:089696e0c603 cc_compiler            : gcc version 
4.1.0 (SUSE Linux) cc_compile_by          : sanjaykumar4 cc_compile_domain      :  hpl.hp.comcc_compile_date        : Tue May 29 09:23:36 PDT 2007 xend_config_format     : 4 
bladespp-04:~ #  
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