Re: [Xen-users] DomU booting problem.

Ernst Bachmann
Thu, 01 Sep 2005 21:32:50 -0000

On Thursday 01 September 2005 20:04, Venkatesh, C D
wrote:
> I am new to Xen and not a pro Linux guy. So, I am having bit of rough
> ride setting up Xen.
>
[...]
>
> Xen (2.0.7) and Dom0(2.6.11.12-Xen0) are booting alright. However, when
> I am not able to start DomU (ttylinux - standard download - no changes
> made). It stops at IP Config. Here is console log, the DomU config file,
> as well my main grub.conf. Quick help is really appreciated. Thanx

> Domain configuration file - ttylinuxVM1
>
> ----------------------------------------
[...]
> disk = [''file:/boot/ttylinux-xen,sda1, w'']
>
> root = "/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 ro"

This might be the problem: The contents of /boot/ttylinux-xen are visible to
your new domU as /dev/sda1 device, yet you instruct the domU kernel to fetch
its root filesystem from "/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00"

retry with
root="/dev/sda1"

/Ernst