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2005-Jun-14 20:12 UTC
[Xen-users] Suse 9.3 "kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (8, 1)"
hi, hope you can help or at least give me a hint how to proceed.... I have Xen up and running with a domain0 but having huge problems in getting additional domains created. I followed the instructions in the Suse "readme for xen packages " -> http://www.suse.de/~garloff/linux/xen/README.SuSE and I get to e) These are the steps I followed: Ad 3) YaST dirinstall a) Create a root FS image - create disc image file (dd if=/dev/zero of=img ...) - create file system (mkXYZfs img) - mount image (mount -o loop img ...) b) start yast2 dirinstall module, select mounted directory as a target, select required packages (don''t forget to select XEN kernel, you need some of the kernel modules in the root FS) c) create /etc/fstab in the root FS d) umount image/FS e) configure and start XEN (use the image/FS as storage) When I use the config below, when starting a new domain with xm create configfile vmid=1 -c .... I get the following error in the start up sequence: "kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (8,1)" Config.file: kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11.4-21.7-xen" memory = 100 name = "suse931" nics = 1 ip = "1.2.3.4" disk = [''file:/home/name/vm1disk,sda1,w''] root = "/dev/sda1" By the way I get the same error when trying to start TTYLINUX ... and I followed the instructions in the Xen Manual (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/readmes/user/user.html#SECTION02330000000000000000 -- ciao ev _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users