Hi All, My Dom0 is CentOS 5.x The DomU is Debian Lenny What occurs is on DomU boot, it will stall at the following message: Begin: Waiting for root file system ... After the timeout has lapsed, it goes to the busybox initramfs. If I type in vgchange -ay VolGroup00 and then ctrl-D to continue, it boots successfully. Does anyone know why the vgchange to make the volume group available, is not occurring automatically? Regards, Alan _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Alan <alan@madrooster.com> wrote:> What occurs is on DomU boot, it will stall at the following message: > Begin: Waiting for root file system ... > After the timeout has lapsed, it goes to the busybox initramfs. If I type in > vgchange -ay VolGroup00 and then ctrl-D to continue, it boots successfully.How did you install domU? Is it fresh install, or did you copy it from a live system? Where is the kernel located? dom0 or domU (booted with pygrub)? If it''s a new system it''d be lot easier to simply create a new domU with debootstrap, and NOT using LVM or partition on domU side. Regards, Fajar _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Hi Fajar, It is a fresh debootstrap install, with the kernel on the domU booting with pygrub. The reason I prefer the domU to be partitioned as per a normal non Xen install is I can mount different folders with different permissions etc. For example, /tmp as noexec/nosuid. I might try doing an install onto a standard partition setup (no LVM) and see how it goes. For the record, I''ve done this method with Ubuntu 7.10/8.04/8.10 with no issues. Regards, Alan -----Original Message----- From: Fajar A. Nugraha [mailto:fajar@fajar.net] Sent: Sunday, 8 March 2009 11:12 AM To: Alan Lam Cc: xen-users Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Debian Lenny & LVM Partitions On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Alan <alan@madrooster.com> wrote:> What occurs is on DomU boot, it will stall at the following message:> Begin: Waiting for root file system ...> After the timeout has lapsed, it goes to the busybox initramfs. If Itype in> vgchange -ay VolGroup00 and then ctrl-D to continue, it bootssuccessfully. How did you install domU? Is it fresh install, or did you copy it from a live system? Where is the kernel located? dom0 or domU (booted with pygrub)? If it''s a new system it''d be lot easier to simply create a new domU with debootstrap, and NOT using LVM or partition on domU side. Regards, Fajar _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Alan <alan@madrooster.com> wrote:> It is a fresh debootstrap install, with the kernel on the domU booting with > pygrub. > The reason I prefer the domU to be partitioned as per a normal non Xen > install is I can mount different folders with different permissions etc. For > example, /tmp as noexec/nosuid.>From xen perspective you can always use LVM on dom0, and assign an LVon dom0 for each domU''s partition. I usually give one for "/", one for swap, one for data (if needed).> I might try doing an install onto a standard partition setup (no LVM) and > see how it goes. > For the record, I''ve done this method with Ubuntu 7.10/8.04/8.10 with no > issues.This is a debian issue then. You should ask debian experts out there :) My guess is that somehow your debian installation does not include LVM features on initrd. In ubuntu this is automatic, but maybe there''s a config option somewhere that needs to be changed. Again, debian specific. Perhaps if you run update-initramfs while having debian booted it will correctly modifiy the initrd. Regards, Fajar _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Hi Fajar, Yeah, it works fine if I do the partitions for the domU as standard non LVM partitions. Looks like the issue lies with Debian and LVM. I did try the update-initramfs with no luck. Regards, Alan -----Original Message----- From: Fajar A. Nugraha [mailto:fajar@fajar.net] Sent: Sunday, 8 March 2009 9:14 PM To: Alan Lam Cc: xen-users Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Debian Lenny & LVM Partitions On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Alan <alan@madrooster.com> wrote:> It is a fresh debootstrap install, with the kernel on the domU bootingwith> pygrub.> The reason I prefer the domU to be partitioned as per a normal non Xen> install is I can mount different folders with different permissionsetc. For> example, /tmp as noexec/nosuid.From xen perspective you can always use LVM on dom0, and assign an LV on dom0 for each domU''s partition. I usually give one for "/", one for swap, one for data (if needed).> I might try doing an install onto a standard partition setup (no LVM)and> see how it goes.> For the record, I''ve done this method with Ubuntu 7.10/8.04/8.10 withno> issues.This is a debian issue then. You should ask debian experts out there :) My guess is that somehow your debian installation does not include LVM features on initrd. In ubuntu this is automatic, but maybe there''s a config option somewhere that needs to be changed. Again, debian specific. Perhaps if you run update-initramfs while having debian booted it will correctly modifiy the initrd. Regards, Fajar _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users