Hi Folks,
I am trying to boot a FC 6 guest VM over latest unstable xen. The boot fails
giving me the following error.

md: bitmap version 4.39
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
netfront: device eth0 has copying receive path.
mgmt mgmt-0: 16 Could not register device
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/console/0
Sending DHCP requests .., OK
IP-Config: Got DHCP answer from 0.0.0.0, my address is 15.25.119.243
IP-Config: Complete:
device=eth0, addr=15.25.119.243, mask=255.255.255.0, gw=15.25.119.1,
host=15.25.119.243, domain=hpl.hp.com, nis-domain=(none),
bootserver=0.0.0.0, rootserver=15.25.119.17, rootpath=
Freeing unused kernel memory: 184k freed
Red Hat nash version 5.1.19.0.3 starting
Mounting proc filesystem
Mounting sysfs filesystem
Creating /dev
Creating initial device nodes
Setting up hotplug.
Creating block device nodes.
Loading usbcore.ko module
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
Loading uhci-hcd.ko module
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
Loading ohci-hcd.ko module
Loading ehci-hcd.ko module
Loading jbd.ko module
Loading ext3.ko module
Loading scsi_mod.ko module
SCSI subsystem initialized
Loading sd_mod.ko module
Loading cciss.ko module
HP CISS Driver (v 3.6.10)
Loading scsi_transport_fc.ko module
Loading firmware_class.ko module
Loading qla2xxx.ko module
QLogic Fibre Channel HBA Driver
Loading ide-disk.ko module
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!

here is my guest config file.

#----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Kernel image file.
kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6-xen"

# Optional ramdisk.
ramdisk = "/boot/initrd-2.6-xen.img"

name = "WebServer"

vif = [ '' ]

#disk = [ 'phy:/dev/cciss/c0d0p5,sda1,w', 'file:/swap/swap_vm1,sda2,w']
#disk = [ 'phy:sda1,sda1,w']

# Set if you want dhcp to allocate the IP address.
dhcp="dhcp"
#ip="15.25.119.249"
# Set netmask.
#netmask="255.255.255.0"
# Set default gateway.
#gateway="15.25.119.1"
# Set the hostname.
#hostname= "vm1"

# Set root device.
#root = "/dev/sda1 ro"

# Root device for nfs.
root = "/dev/nfs"
# The nfs server.
nfs_server = "15.25.119.17"
# Root directory on the nfs server.
nfs_root = "/mnt/VM1"

# Sets runlevel 4.
extra = "4"


I have setup the nfs server correctly because I am able to mount the root
NFS directory from another machine using the mount command.
#mount 15.25.119.17:/mnt/VM1 /mnt/*
**
*I have compiled all NFS related modules inside the guest kernel (i.e. they
are not compiled as modules)

here is what my fstab entry for the guest VM says

#/dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
15.25.119.17:/mnt/VM1 / nfs defaults 1 1
#/dev/nfs / nfs defaults 1 1
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0

I have tried all the first 3 options in the above list as root device but
everytime it fails with the same error.


One thing I don't understand is that when I have specified  root =
"/dev/nfs"  in the guest config file, why does it fail trying to mount
/dev/root  device

Has anyone seen this problem? Could anyone please help me with this?

Thanks,
Sanjay

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PhD Candidate, Georgia Tech
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~ksanjay/