[Xen-users] xen SUSE 9.3 ReiserFS domU not finding root fs

["Daniel Netzer | zeroconcept.de" <daniel.netzer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I have trouble starting my domU on a suse 9.3 box. I use the xen that 
shipped with suse.
I use file backed VMs and created the root and swap images. I used 
mkreiserfs to format the image file and installed suse 9.3 via the YaST 
module "install into directory for XEN". finally I created /etc/fstab IN 
the loop mounted image file:
/dev/sda1            /                    reiserfs   defaults 
   1 1
/dev/sda2            swap                 swap       pri=42 
   0 0
devpts               /dev/pts             devpts     mode=0620,gid=5 
   0 0
proc                 /proc                proc       defaults 
   0 0
If I boot such a domU  - it panics while booting saying something like: 
"Not syncing root file system - rebooting in <1>". If I use an image 
file which was formatted with ext3 (again adjusted the /etc/fstab) 
everything works fine and SUSE is booting. After a closer look I noticed 
that the ext3 filesystem is used in ext2 mode only.
How do I use ReiserFS for my unprivileged Domains? Do I need an initrd? 
How do I configure it? I tried the /boot/initrd-xen from suse and used 
the following line in my config but it doesnÂt seem to work too:
ramdisk = "/boot/initrd-xen"

Can anybody help?

thanks a lot!
Daniel


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