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Re: [Xen-users] xen and boot problems (with CentOS 4.2)

To: mbjohn@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] xen and boot problems (with CentOS 4.2)
From: Haavard Bjerke <havard.bjerke@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:24:04 +0200
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mbjohn@xxxxxxxx wrote:
Hello --

We're trying to get a Centos 4.2 system working under a Centos 4.2
operating system using the instructions we found at
http://mark.foster.cc/wiki/index.php/Centos-4_on_Xen.  The prospect of
running several virtual servers on one physical box is pretty
intriguing.  I think we're pretty close, but we've gotten to a place
that has me stumped.  I'm hoping someone can help.

We've gotten to a place where we can actually boot our VM by running
'xm create -c /etc/xen/vm03 vmid=3' (we are using the configuration from
the Xen documentation).  We see the standard kernel boot
up messages and things start out well.  Then we get to:


EXT2-fs warning (device sdb3): ext2_fill_super: mounting ext3 filesystem
as ext2

VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Freeing unused kernel memory: 184k freed
unix: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted.
NET: Registered protocol family 1
INIT: version 2.85 booting
               Welcome to  CentOS release 4.2 (Final)
               Press 'I' to enter interactive startup.
Starting udev:  [  OK  ]
Initializing hardware...  storage network audio done[  OK  ]
raidautorun: RAID_AUTORUN failed: 19
mount: mount point devpts does not exist
Configuring kernel parameters:  [  OK  ]
Setting clock : Tue Mar 28 16:01:59 EST 2006 [  OK  ]
Setting hostname localhost:  [  OK  ]
Checking root filesystem
[/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /] fsck.ext3 -a /dev/sdb3
/dev/sdb3 is mounted.  e2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting.


[FAILED]

*** An error occurred during the file system check.
*** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot
*** when you leave the shell.
Press enter for maintenance
(or type Control-D to continue):


I cannot for the life of me figure out what's going wrong.  I've
dropped into the maintenance shell and done a fsck, but as soon as I
try to boot it back up again, the same problem.


Try adding "fastboot" to the "extra" parameter in the domU config file. It helps for SL, so I suspect it might for Centos aswell.

Havard

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