Hello everyone. As I am new to this group I''ll be short and try to explain what I''m doing with enough detail so that someone might be able to help me out. First off I have successfully compiled xen-unstable and downloaded Jeremy''s pvops kernel, 2.6.31.6. I have configured it to the best of my ability and run built and installed it. I have executed mkinitrd, at first this complained about ahci and two usb modules missing. I have since found the CONFIG settings to compile them as modules and now no errors. I am running Centos 5.3 64bit and have root installed on a LVM Group and a LV that''s formatted with ext3. My problem is that the kernel and initrd can''t seem to find my LVM Group or LV''s, naturally. I am at a loss, since I don''t have a serial port or anyway of seeing anything during boot, it''s scrolling a bunch of stuff accross the screen. How can I troubleshoot this? Do I need to extract the initrd img file and start looking at the init scripts to see if it''s not loading LVM or something like that? Any pointers would be great! Mike _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
Sorry for the top-post... I had a similar problem on FC5 that was because of some deprecated sysfs stuff. There's a compatibility setting for those of us with really old userland tools (like LVM)... Don't remember the exact name of it off hand. I'll look it up when I get to work tomorrow. -Mike ------Original Message------ From: Mike Collins Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com Subject: [Xen-devel] xen-unstable and pvops kernel Sent: Jan 4, 2010 18:25 Hello everyone. As I am new to this group I'll be short and try to explain what I'm doing with enough detail so that someone might be able to help me out. First off I have successfully compiled xen-unstable and downloaded Jeremy's pvops kernel, 2.6.31.6. I have configured it to the best of my ability and run built and installed it. I have executed mkinitrd, at first this complained about ahci and two usb modules missing. I have since found the CONFIG settings to compile them as modules and now no errors. I am running Centos 5.3 64bit and have root installed on a LVM Group and a LV that's formatted with ext3. My problem is that the kernel and initrd can't seem to find my LVM Group or LV's, naturally. I am at a loss, since I don't have a serial port or anyway of seeing anything during boot, it's scrolling a bunch of stuff accross the screen. How can I troubleshoot this? Do I need to extract the initrd img file and start looking at the init scripts to see if it's not loading LVM or something like that? Any pointers would be great! Mike _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel --- Michael D Labriola 21 Rip Van Winkle Cir Warwick, RI 02886 401-316-9844 _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 12:06:39AM +0000, mdlabriola@yahoo.com wrote:> Sorry for the top-post... > > I had a similar problem on FC5 that was because of some deprecated sysfs stuff. There''s a compatibility setting for those of us with really old userland tools (like LVM)... Don''t remember the exact name of it off hand. I''ll look it up when I get to work tomorrow.CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
Thanks. Trying that now. Will update as soon as I rebuild. Mike On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 19:10 -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:> On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 12:06:39AM +0000, mdlabriola@yahoo.com wrote: > > Sorry for the top-post... > > > > I had a similar problem on FC5 that was because of some deprecated sysfs stuff. There''s a compatibility setting for those of us with really old userland tools (like LVM)... Don''t remember the exact name of it off hand. I''ll look it up when I get to work tomorrow. > > CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y_______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
Ok, got it working with using the below setting. Now I can boot into pvops kernel dom0. Of course, I''m now getting the dreaded xenfs busy or already mounted error and am getting a no such device back from /dev/rtc. Seems like CentOS is just too old for all the new fangled things in this kernel. I will research this tomorrow night and maybe look into grabbing a newer OS in the meantime. Mike On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 19:10 -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:> On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 12:06:39AM +0000, mdlabriola@yahoo.com wrote: > > Sorry for the top-post... > > > > I had a similar problem on FC5 that was because of some deprecated sysfs stuff. There''s a compatibility setting for those of us with really old userland tools (like LVM)... Don''t remember the exact name of it off hand. I''ll look it up when I get to work tomorrow. > > CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y_______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel