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Re: [Xen-users] Cannot use USB storage device as DomU drive

To: David Cundiff <dcundiff@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Cannot use USB storage device as DomU drive
From: Vincent Hanquez <vincent.hanquez@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 01:11:11 +0100
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On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 02:55:10PM -0500, David Cundiff wrote:
> I just upgraded a perfectly stable xen-2.0.6 system to the 
> xen-3.0-testing, changeset 8269:a91e4dcf629d I believe. My system uses 
> LVM's for most of the DomU drives and I have 1 USB drive that I mount 
> into a DomU. After the upgrade I can no longer get my USB drive to 
> mount.

Not sure I get it right, you trying to start a domU with a root disk
on a USB drive ?

- is there multiple partitions ?
- are you tring to export the whole disk ?
- are you able to mount the USB drive's partition(s) on dom0 ?

Please attach your domU config you trying to start,
I think you are missing some lines on the oops message (reason to oops).

> In the DomU I get "VFS: Cannot open root device "sda1" or 
> unknown-block(2,0)". This also leaves a zombie behind. Nothing 
> interesting in any of the xendlogs other than telling me the domain 
> crashed. I did get this kernel message from Dom0 right after the network 
> interface is brought up
> 
> Any ideas??

I cannot reproduce at the moment (tried exporting different lvm devices),
but that could well be USB specific.
I will try to find a USB drive to hook to it.

Cheers,
-- 
Vincent Hanquez

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