The bootup message after using the ramdisk is shown below. Thanks Girish -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
[root@localhost second]# xm create -c
file-config-rh9_diskimg 
Using config file "./file-config-rh9_diskimg". 
Started domain fc6_new 
                      Linux version
2.6.18.8-xen (root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.1.2 20070626 (Red Hat
4.1.2-13)) #2 SMP Thu Mar 20 17:40:00 EDT 2008 
BIOS-provided physical RAM map: 
 Xen: 0000000000000000 - 0000000010800000
(usable) 
0MB HIGHMEM available. 
264MB LOWMEM available. 
ACPI in unprivileged domain disabled 
Allocating PCI resources starting at 20000000 (gap: 10800000:ef800000) 
Detected 3202.737 MHz processor. 
Built 1 zonelists.  Total pages: 67584 
Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda1 ro 
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. 
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. 
Initializing CPU#0 
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 8192 bytes) 
Xen reported: 3200.114 MHz processor. 
Console: colour dummy device 80x25 
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) 
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) 
Software IO TLB disabled 
vmalloc area: d1000000-f51fe000, maxmem 2d7fe000 
Memory: 251788k/270336k available (2056k kernel code, 10352k reserved, 712k
data, 196k init, 0k highmem) 
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. 
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 6447.39 BogoMIPS
(lpj=32236972) 
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized 
Capability LSM initialized 
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D
cache: 16K 
CPU: L2 cache: 2048K 
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. 
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code 
Freeing SMP alternatives: 16k freed 
Brought up 1 CPUs 
migration_cost=0 
checking if image is initramfs... it is 
Freeing initrd memory: 3552k 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: 2, 16384 bytes) 
TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) 
TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 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(1206452738.073:1): initialized 
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) 
Initializing Cryptographic API 
io scheduler noop registered 
io scheduler anticipatory registered 
io scheduler deadline registered 
io scheduler cfq registered (default) 
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is unknown type 15 (usb?), fd1 is unknown type 15 (usb?) 
Failed to obtain physical IRQ 6 
floppy0: Unable to grab DMA2 for the floppy driver 
floppy0: no floppy controllers found 
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize 
loop: loaded (max 8 devices) 
Xen virtual console successfully installed as xvc0 
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 
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode 
xen-vbd: registered block device major 8 
blkfront: sda1: barriers enabled 
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/console/0 
BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found 
EDD information not available. 
Freeing unused kernel memory: 196k freed 
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs 
usbcore: registered new driver hub 
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0 
SCSI subsystem initialized 
register_blkdev: cannot get major 8 for sd 
Fusion MPT base driver 3.04.01 
Copyright (c) 1999-2005 LSI Logic Corporation 
Fusion MPT SPI Host driver 3.04.01 
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5
seconds 
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. 
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! 
  
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 On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 6:17 AM, Igor Chubin < igor@xxxxxxx> wrote:
 On So, Mär 23, 2008 at 12:30:11 -0400, Girish V wrote: 
> Hi Igor. 
> Thanks for the suggestion. I did try using a ramdisk - and the bootup of the 
> domU goes a little bit furter, but init still crashes with the same message 
> as before. 
> Any idea what I should do further? 
 
 
 What the last printed lines now? 
> Thanks, 
> Girish 
> 
> On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Igor Chubin < igor@xxxxxxx> wrote: 
> 
> > On Mi, Mär 19, 2008 at 10:43:25 -0400, Girish V wrote: 
> > > Hello, 
> > 
> > Hello Girish, 
> > 
> > ... 
> > 
> > 
> > Try to specify ramdisk here: 
> > 
> > (check path in my example) 
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> > > 
> > > kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-xen" 
> > ramdisk = "/boot/initrd.img-2.6.18.8-xen" 
> > > memory = 256 
> > > name = "fc6" 
> > > vif = [ 'bridge=xenbr0' ] 
> > > disk = [ 'file:/second/fc6_domudisk,sda1,w' ] 
> > > root = "/dev/sda1 ro" 
> > > 
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> > > 
> > -- 
> > WBR, i.m.chubin 
> > 
> >
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WBR, i.m.chubin 
 
  
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