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Re: [Xen-users] Why I can not boot xen without initrd? Please help.

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Why I can not boot xen without initrd? Please help.
From: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:46:59 +0000
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> I have SATA HDDs in software raid1 (mdadm). debian amd64
> Why I cannot boot xen without initrd?
> I get error:
> VFS: Cannot open root device "md2" or unknown-block(0,0)
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> unknown-block(0,0)

Is native debian booting without an initrd?  Did you custom compile the debian 
kernel?

Cheers,
Mark

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