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

["sadique@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <sadique@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Try "e2fsck -f -y <image>" before you start Dom-U and start Dom-U
without fastboot option. I believe this should work.

Thanks
Sadique

John Cianfarani wrote:

>I believe adding the below line should also fix it.  I run CentOS 4.2 as
>well and use this line instead of the fastboot.
>
>root = "/dev/sda1 ro"
>
>Thanks
>John
>
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>Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 10:17 AM
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>Subject: [Xen-users] xen and boot problems (with CentOS 4.2)
>
>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.
>
>Thank you for any help.
>
>Brian
>
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