[et-mgmt-tools] [Out of Topic] wrong device...

Michael DeHaan mdehaan at redhat.com
Fri Feb 9 14:06:37 UTC 2007


John.Sanabria at ece.uprm.edu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> many thanks to Michael and Daniel, for your pertinent comments.
>
> Next question is nothing related to cobbler or koan, but perhaps you can
> help me about it.
>
> when i run the koan command (koan --virt --server=136.145.116.78
> --profile="..."), at the end i got the next message:
>
> Creating root device.
> Mounting root filesystem.
> mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
> Setting up other filesystems.
> Setting up new root fs
> setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory
> no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults
> setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory
> setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory
> Switching to new root and running init.
> unmounting old /dev
> unmounting old /proc
> unmounting old /sys
> switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
>  It appears the installation has crashed
>
> The problem at this time, is that kernel image try to mount the root
> partition to device that is not available. I know the command "rdev"
> allows me change the root partition that kernel image expected. What's the
> suitable partition in order to follow with the installation?
>
> thanks a lot, regards.
>
>
>
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Offhand, no idea.

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