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Re: [Xen-users] Partitioned Ubuntu menu.lst settings -


  • To: dnvandyck <dnvandyck@xxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Bruce Edge <bruce.edge@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:58:49 -0700
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I suspect you need to add an initrd module line after the 'module
/vmlin....' line.
eg:
module          /initrd.img-2.6.31.1

-Bruce

On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 8:11 PM, dnvandyck <dnvandyck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'm having trouble booting the Xen kernel. The error message is:
>
> cannot open root device "/dev/sdaX" or unkown block (0,0),
>
> which is causing a kernel panic.
>
> My menu.lst file contains the following entry
>
> title Xen 3.0 / XenLinux 2.6
> kernel /xen.gz dom0_mem=512M
> module /vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-xen root=/dev/sda6 ro console=tty0
>
> 'df' yields the following:
>
> /dev/sda6             15116836   6040976   8307956  43% /
> tmpfs                  1002704         0   1002704   0% /lib/init/rw
> varrun                 1002704       112   1002592   1% /var/run
> varlock                1002704         0   1002704   0% /var/lock
> udev                   1002704       156   1002548   1% /dev
> tmpfs                  1002704        76   1002628   1% /dev/shm
> lrm                    1002704      2192   1000512   1%
> /lib/modules/2.6.28-15-server/volatile
> /dev/sda5               202187     94289     97459  50% /boot
> /dev/sda7             50396528  10802436  37034140  23% /home
>
> and although I suspect the problem has something to do with the partitioning
> of /boot and /, I would appreciate some advice on possible remedies.
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