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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 12:22:28AM +0530, K T Ligesh wrote:
> 
>  mkinitrd has a major issue. It doesn't give error if the module we 
> specify in the --with= doesn't exist. I gave mkintrd --with=gobble.kkk 
> and it accepted it very happily and proceeded to create a initrd. 
> What kind of initrd does this create? In fact, the initrd has no error 
> checking whatsoever. The problem is that the xenblk.ko is not there 
> in the initrd. It should actually be compiled into the kernel, at 
> least the xen kernel. And I am completely confused why it isn't done so.

The xenblk driver is perfectly capable of living as a kernel module. All
standard FC6 guest installs will have an initrd with xenblk as a module

  # cd /tmp
  # mkdir initrd
  # cd initrd
  # gunzip -c < /boot/initrd-2.6.18-1.2849.1dan2tbxen.img | cpio -idmv
  # find | grep xenblk
  ./lib/xenblk.ko

Dan
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