Xen users - Apr 2009 - [Xen-research] Source code compiling and booting issue with xen 3.3

Hi, I read your post about the compiling source of xen 3.3. I met the
same problem as you; the booter can not find the root filesystem. Did
you solve the problem or you could share your solution. Thanks.

Steven

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Thanks for the reply. But i looked in /etc/modprobe.conf file. there
is no such thing.

[root@localhost etc]# cat /etc/modprobe.conf
alias eth0 e100
alias scsi_hostadapter libata
alias scsi_hostadapter1 ata_piix
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
options snd-card-0 index=0
options snd-intel8x0 index=0
[root@localhost etc]#

I also saw related directories and files like modprobe.d/ but couldn''t
find out.

do u mean to say that  /xen-3.3.0/build-linux-2.6.18-xen_x86_32/
contains this file. but i was unable to find modprobe.conf inside
xen-3.3.0 directory.

I m still facing the same problem.

Any more suggestions.

Thanks,
Abhay


On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:42 PM, John Krautheim <jkrautheim@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

    Are you sure the initrd made correctly? It has the initial drivers
to read your drive. Xen is booting, so you probably not getting the
right drivers to start your OS. If you didn''t modify the modprobe.conf
file, it probably had a alias for ata-generic, which is not supported
under the 2.6.18 kernel. Change the ata-generic to ahci and remake
your initrd file.

    Also, unless your using aacraid, sd_mod, and scsi_mod, you can
delete those from your initrd file as well. The mkinitrd will include
the modules you need.

    Hope this helps.

    John Krautheim, CISSP, PMP
    jkrautheim@xxxxxxxxx


    On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Abhay Bhadani <abhadani@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


        Hi All,

           I am trying to compile Xen 3.3.0 source code which
downloads updates from mercurial repository.
           I am trying to modify the CPU scheduler, but before i make
any changes i need to test it by installing it from source.


        OS: Fedora 8 Linux

        I compiled the source code by using

        [root@localhost xen-3.3.0]# make world
        [root@localhost xen-3.3.0]# make install
        [root@localhost xen-3.3.0]# depmod 2.6.18.8-xen
        [root@localhost xen-3.3.0]# mkinitrd -v -f --with=aacraid
--with=sd_mod --with=scsi_mod initrd-2.6.18.8-xen.img 2.6.18.8-xen

        then i moved "initrd-2.6.18.8-xen.img" to /boot

        edited the grub.conf

        title WindowsXP
                rootnoverify (hd0,0)
                chainloader +1

        title Fedora-base (2.6.23.1-42.fc8)
                root (hd0,5)
                kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
                initrd /initrd-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.img
        title Fedora (2.6.21-2950.fc8xen)
                root (hd0,5)
                kernel /xen.gz-2.6.21-2950.fc8
                module /vmlinuz-2.6.21-2950.fc8xen ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
                module /initrd-2.6.21-2950.fc8xen.img

        title Source Compiled Xen - 3rd March 2009 (2.6.18.8-xen)
                root (hd0,5)
                kernel /xen-3.3.0.gz
                #module /vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-xen ro root=/dev/sda8 console=tty0 1
                module /vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-xen ro root=LABEL=/ console=tty0
                module /initrd-2.6.18.8-xen.img

        When i select 4th option, i get these messages while booting,



        (XEN) *** LOADING DOMAIN 0 ***
        .
        .
        .
        (XEN) Dom0 has maximum 1 VCPUs
        (XEN) Initrd len 0x6e8600, start ar 0xc0460000
        (XEN) Scrubbing Free RAM: .........done.
        (XEN) Xen trace buffers: disabled
        Red Hat nash version 6.0.19 starting
        mount: could not find filesystem ''/dev/root''
        setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory
        setuproot: error mounting /proc : No such file or directory
        setuproot: error mounting /sys : No such file or directory
        switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory


        After this the system hangs....

        it seems it is unable to mount root filesystem. What changes
needs to be done to make things work.

        Any suggestions.

        Thanks in advance.

        Regards,
        Abhay Bhadani





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