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Re: [Xen-devel] xen and reiserfs

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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] xen and reiserfs
From: Mark Williamson <Mark.Williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 16:16:52 +0000
Cc: Jim Martin <jamesm@xxxxxxx>
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> I'm running Xen on Fedora core 3...
> uname -a
> Linux groucho 2.6.10-1.1148_FC4xen0 #1 SMP Sat Feb 19 15:15:24 EST 2005
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> # xm list
> Name              Id  Mem(MB)  CPU  State  Time(s)  Console
> Domain-0           0      121    0  r----    140.9

Looks good.

> What I'm trying to do is get SuSE 9.2 to come up in it's own domain..
> /dev/hda2 = root for FC-3
> /dev/hdb2 = root for SuSE 9.2
>
> My config file in /etc/xen (suse)
> # cat suse
> kernel ="/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.1148_FC4xenU"
> memory = 64
> name = "suse"
> nics = 1
> disk = ['phy:hdb2,hdb2,w']
> root = "/dev/hdb2 ro"

Also looks good, although I doubt the FC4 kernel includes support for ReiserFS 
- you might need to build a new one.

> My problem...
> When I run 'xm create -c suse' everything seems fine right up to the
> point of
> mounting root and I get this error:
> md: ... autorun DONE.
> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> unknown-block(3,66)
>  <0>Rebooting in 1 seconds..
>
> This is a reiserfs /dev/hdb2 - does this xen kernel support reiserfs ?
> Or is my config file wrong ?

I don't think this is a filesystem support problem - it looks like it's not 
getting that far.  However, SuSE 9.2 uses udev, so it seems likely you'll 
need to boot the SuSE domain with an initrd.  The stock one in your 
SuSE /boot may do the trick (If that doesn't work, I think there's also a 
Xen-specific one in the SuSE Xen rpms).

Does anyone know whether FC4 is currently on the -stable, -testing or 
-unstable version of Xen?  If it's -stable or -testing, you could use the 
standard SuSE Xen kernel, otherwise you'll have to build your own with 
ReiserFS support.

Cheers,
Mark

> Thanks !!
> Jim (Jim Martin - jamesm@xxxxxxx)
>
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