On 7 Apr 2005, at 13:29, Shahzad Chohan wrote:
Hi
I've got the following problem when running xen on fedora core 4 Test 1 using, xm create -c rawhide:
VFS: Cannot open root device "mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00" or unknown-block(0,0)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
Can anyone please help with this? I've tried mapping different device nodes, but I can't narrow down the problem, my mount looks like this:
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw) /dev/proc on /proc type proc (rw) /dev/sys on /sys type sysfs (rw) /dev/devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw) /dev/shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
My xen domain file (/etc/xen/rawhide) looks like this
kernel ="/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1225_FC4xenU" memory = 100 name = "rawhide" nics = 1 disk = ['file:/root/fedora.img,mapper,w'] root = "/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 ro"
AFAIK, devmapper isn't supported in domainU. You should instead configure your domainU as:
disk = [ 'file:/root/fedora.img,sda1,w'] root = '/dev/sda1 ro'
This will map your loop-based filesystem as /dev/sda1 inside domainU.
