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Re: [Xen-devel] Newbie boot problem (root on logical volume?)

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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Newbie boot problem (root on logical volume?)
From: Himanshu Raj <rhim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 10:52:34 -0500
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Might this be the ext3 inclusion problem in configuration? I usually include 
ext3 in kernel rather than
a module.

Himanshu
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 09:50:01AM +0000, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 10:31:01AM +0200, Roland Paterson-Jones wrote:
> > Hi all
> > 
> > Sorry for the newbie question.
> > 
> > I have installed xen-2.0.3 binary release over Fedora Core 3 2.6.9.
> > 
> > Xen boots, and XenLinux seems to start, but it can't find the root 
> > partition, eventually failing looking for an NFS root.
> > 
> > My root file system is on a logical volume:
> > 
> >    kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00
> > 
> > from the straight Fedora boot.
> > 
> > So, the xen version is:
> > 
> >    module /vmlinuz-2.6.10-xen0 root=/dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00 ro 
> > console=tty0
> > 
> > Do I have to do anything special to use the logical volume?
> Yes. Use an initrd. Create it with:
> mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.10-xen0.img 2.6.10-xen0 -v -f
> 
> Then add it to grub:
> >    module /vmlinuz-2.6.10-xen0 root=/dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00 ro 
> > console=tty0
>      module /initrd-2.6.10-xen0.img
> 
> Before any of that, make sure you compiled the dom0 kernel with support
> to device-mapper/lvm.
> 
> Regards,
> Luciano Rocha
> 
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