[Fedora-xen] Problem booting jailtime images

You, Yongkang yongkang.you at intel.com
Fri Mar 31 05:18:53 UTC 2006


>-----Original Message-----
>From: fedora-xen-bounces at redhat.com
>[mailto:fedora-xen-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Murat I??k
>Sent: 2006年3月31日 6:23
>To: fedora-xen at redhat.com
>Subject: [Fedora-xen] Problem booting jailtime images
>
>Hello,
>
>After installing a fresh fc5, I followed
>fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraXenQuickstartFC5 up until xenguest-install.py
>part. After that point for a quick try I downloaded both fc4 and debian
>prebuilt images from jailtime.org . However both images, as I boot them
>with xm create -c {related one}.cfg , crash with this error:
>
>VFS: Cannot open root device "sda1" 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)
>
>I did extensive googling and mounted the images, cheking their fstab and
>so on. Everything looks fine. But the problem is unresolved.

Did you use the '/dev/sda1' as the root boot option in xenU config?
And the xenU fstab also used sda1?
Change they to /dev/hda1 and have a try.

>
>Does anybody have any experiences with jailtime images? any suggestions?
>BTW my host fc5 has LVM partitioning. Very unlikely but can this have an
>effect?
>
>Have a nice day.
>
>
>--
>Murat Isik
>www.bilgiguvenlik.com
>
>--


Best Regards,
Yongkang (Kangkang) 永康




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