Re: [Xen-devel] Configure Xen in Mandrake 10.2 cooker

[Mark Williamson <maw48@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I don't know if this is the right place to post, but I can't find any info
> about my problem on the net.

Yes, this is the right place.

> title Xen2610
> kernel /boot/xen.gz dom0_mem=131072 console=vga
> module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-xen0 root=/dev/hde1 ro console=tty0

Looks fine.

> But Xen kernel doesn't start. Every time I try to boot I get this error (I
> take a screenshot of my monitor with a digital camera, because my boot.log
> doesn't record anything when I boot with Xen kernel):
>
> Root-NFS: No NFS server available, giving up
> VFS: Unable to mount root FS via NFS, trying floppy
> VFS: Insert root floppy and press enter.
>
> After [enter] (I don't have any root floppy) I get:
>
> VFS: Cannot open root device "hde1" or unknown-block(2,0)
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> unknown-block(2,0)

Sounds to me like the kernel is not detecting your hard drive device at boot 
time.  I'm moderately surprised it's not detecting it at all - what hardware 
are you running on?

Can you please send the output of dmesg under your working Linux kernel?

Cheers,
Mark

> This is a standard mandrake entry in grub:
>
> title 2611-2
> kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11-2mdk root=/dev/hde1 devfs=nomount
> acpi=ht splash=silent vga=788
> initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd-2.6.11-2mdk.img
>
>
> What's going wrong?
>
> TIA.
>
> Davide.
>
>
>
>
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