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Re: [Xen-users] Re: [Xen-devel] domU crash

To: "Tom Brown" <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Re: [Xen-devel] domU crash
From: Stephan Böni <boeni@xxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 18:13:19 +0200
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> >
> > On 15 Oct 2005, at 16:03, Stephan Böni wrote:
> >
> > > It does still not work. :-(
> > >
> > > Stephan
> >
> > Looks like the domain is crashing early during boot. Have you done a
> > completely clean rebuild and reinstall of your domU kernel 
> image? This
> > is most often caused by an inconsistent kernel image...

I've used the OpenSUSE 10.0 and the 10.1 build.

> I just wrote in about this a few days ago. I fought with this 
> for quite a
> while. For me the solution was to change the domU config 
> (e.g. /etc/fstab)
> to expect a device that _did_ exist in dom0.
> 
> adding the device in /dev/ simply seems to hide the single line in the
> logs that tells you what is happening. I don't know when xen 
> scans /dev/
> but i seems to be earlier than my manual mknod commands were 
> being run.

No way. I have an existing sda2 and used now this device in the config file:
  disk = [ 'phy:xenvg/inhouse-root,sda2,w' ]
  root = "/dev/sda2"
and in the domU /etc/fstab:
  /dev/sda2 / reiserfs defaults 1 1

Any other ideas?

Stephan

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