[Fedora-xen] DomU boot on Fedora 6 fails with 'no root found' error.

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 07:28:25PM +0530, Ligesh wrote:
> 
>  I am trying to get Xen running on Fedora 6, which I thought would be easy, but I guess not. I am using the standard image from jailtime.org and my domU configuration file is below. I am using the same kernel of the host itself.
> 
> ------------
>  kernel     = '/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6xen'
>  ramdisk    = '/boot/initrd-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6xen.img'
>  memory     = 512
>  name       = 'test.vm'
>  vif        = ['vifname=vif-test0,  mac=aa:00:f6:f4:06:1a']
>  vnc        = 0
>  vncviewer  = 0
>  serial     = 'pty'
>  disk       = ['file:/home/test.vm//root.img,sda1,w', 'file:/home/test.vm//vm.swap,sda2,w']
>  root = '/dev/sda1 ro'
>  ------------------

Xen filesystem images should be kept in /xen (legacy location) or
/var/lib/xen/images (recommended location) otherwise SELinux will
deny the VM access to the files & the guest will be unable to
mount its filesystem. I suspect this could be what's causing your
VM to not find its root filesystem.

> 	   Volume group "VolGroup00" not found
> 	   mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'



Dan.
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