Re: [Xen-users] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

Ted Kaczmarek
Fri, 30 Sep 2005 00:13:15 -0000

On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 16:18 -0700, Lamia M.Youseff
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have another problem with starting domainU (xenolinux). I took me
> pretty much quite some time and i can not figure out why starting a new
> domain is failing.
> I will really appreciate if somebody can help me with this error.
> The error I get when booting xen-domainU is:
> /======================>  Red Hat nash version 4.1.18 starting
> Mounted /proc filesystem
> Mounting sysfs
> Creating /dev
> Starting udev
> Loading scsi_mod.ko module
> SCSI subsystem initialized
> Loading sd_mod.ko module
> register_blkdev: cannot get major 8 for sd
> Creating root device
> Mounting root filesystem
> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
> Switching to new root
> Enforcing mode requested but no policy loaded. Halting now.
This by chance referring to selinux?
Make sure it is disabled.

> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
> /============================> My configuration file looks like:
> [root@six xen-domains]# cat xen-export.conf
> kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6-xenU"
> memory = 128
> name = "six-xenolinux"
> nics = 1
> ip = "192.168.1.207"
> netmask=get_current_ipmask()
> gateway=get_current_ipgw()
> hostname="six-xenolinux"
> disk = [''phy:sda5,sda5,w'']
> root = "/dev/sda5 ro/"
> # Kernel image file.
> kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11.10-xenU"
> # Optional ramdisk.
> ramdisk = "/boot/initrd-2.6.11.10-xenU.img"
> ==============================> DomainU fstab looks like:
> [root@six xen-domains]# cat /export/etc/fstab
> # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see ''man
fstab-sync'' for details
> LABEL=/               /dev/sda5           ext3    defaults        1 1
> ==============================> Domain0 looks like:
> [root@six xen-domains]# mount
> /dev/sda2 on / type ext3 (rw)
> none on /proc type proc (rw)
> none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
> none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
> /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
> none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
> /dev/sda5 on /export type ext3 (rw)
> --------------------------------------------
> where actually /export is where I mount the domainU rootfs.
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated,
> Lamia M.Youseff
>
>
Regards,
Ted


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