Hi,
I have searched for a solution to this problem extensively online
and could not find a correct solution.
I'm trying to boot a Ubuntu natty guest domain on Xen-4.3-unstable
and it drops into initramfs shell
saying it cannot find the root device.
Begin: Mounting root file system ... Begin: Running
/scripts/local-top ... done.
Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:
- Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
- Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
- Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?)
- Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
ALERT! /dev/sda1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
I tried to use "modprobe xen-blkfront" but that did not help. I
also looked under /dev but did not find the
corresponding xvda1. I don't see a xen-blkfront module loaded below
which is also suspicious.
> cat /proc/modules | grep xen_
xen_pciback 43562 0 - Live 0x0000000000000000
xen_netback 27364 0 [permanent], Live 0x0000000000000000
xen_blkback 23075 0 [permanent], Live 0x0000000000000000
xen_gntalloc 13143 0 - Live 0x0000000000000000
xen_gntdev 17350 1 - Live 0x0000000000000000
xen_evtchn 13172 1 - Live 0x0000000000000000
My configuration looks like this -
kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz"
ramdisk = "/boot/initrd.img"
memory = 192
name = "guest3"
vif = [ ' ' ]
disk = ['tap:aio:/local/sda4/guest-space/UbuntuXen.img,xvda1,w',
'tap:aio:/local/sda4/guest-space/UbuntuXen.swap,xvda2,w']
root = "/dev/xvda1 ro"
#disk = ['phy:/local/sda4/guest-space/UbuntuXen.img,sda1,w',
'phy:/local/sda4/guest-space/UbuntuXen.swap,sda2,w']
#root = "/dev/sda1 ro"
#disk = ['phy:/local/sda4/guest-space/UbuntuXen.img,xvda1,w',
'phy:/local/sda4/guest-space/UbuntuXen.swap,xvda2,w']
#root = "/dev/xvda1 ro"
extra = 'xencons=tty'
As you can see, I have tried both /dev/sda and /dev/xvda but none of
them helped.
Please help me debug this issue.
Thanks,
Yathi
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