Error: ramdisk

Error: ramdisk

[ccmail111]

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Sure. Thanks again for the prompt help - very appreciated.
As I see I am trying to do what only few have done wrt Xen dom0 to package as bootable iso with ramdisk.
 
Now error below Xen dom 0 is trying to bring up Linux: 
  
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md: ... autorun DONE. 
RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0 
RAMDISK: image too big! (524288KiB/4096KiB) 
  

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The grub is:
 
title SPIRIT OS: Dom0 Xen 3.4 XenLinux 2.6
       kernel /boot/xen.gz noreboot dom0_mem=8024M loglvl=all  console=com1 com1=115200,8n1
       module /boot/vmlinuz.vm  root=dev/ram0 ro console=ttyS0, 115200
       module /boot/ramdisk.gz
 
 
RAMDISK:
 
# ls -l ./ramdisk.gz 
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 44512403 Mar 20 00:15 ./ramdisk.gz 
  
RAMDISK uncompressed:  
# ls -l ./ramdisk 
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1051721728 Mar 20 01:22 ./ramdisk 
 
CONSOLE LOG DETAILS:
 
(XEN) PCI add device 00:09.0
PCI: Ignore bogus resource 6 [0:0] of 0000:00:02.0
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 262144 (order: 10, 4194304 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14a-xen <tigran@veritas.com>
Initializing Cryptographic API
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered (default)
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
PCI: PIIX3: Enabling Passive Release on 0000:00:01.0
Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds.
floppy0: Unable to grab DMA2 for the floppy driver
FDC 0 is a S82078B
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
HP CISS Driver (v 3.6.10)
Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.1.9-k4
Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation.
(XEN) PCI add device 00:03.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:03.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, high) -> IRQ 11
e1000: 0000:00:03.0: e1000_probe: (PCI:33MHz:32-bit) 52:46:03:00:04:01
e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
pcnet32.c:v1.32 18.Mar.2006 tsbogend@alpha.franken.de
e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.5.10-k2-NAPI
e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2005 Intel Corporation
(XEN) PCI add device 00:08.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:08.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 10 (level, high) -> IRQ 10
e100: eth1: e100_probe: addr 0xf6001000, irq 10, MAC addr 52:54:00:12:34:5A
(XEN) PCI add device 00:09.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:09.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 10 (level, high) -> IRQ 10
e100: eth2: e100_probe: addr 0xf6040000, irq 10, MAC addr 52:54:00:12:34:5B
tun: Universal TUN/TAP device driver, 1.6
tun: (C) 1999-2004 Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Xen virtual console successfully installed as xvc0
Event-channel device installed.
blktap_device_init: blktap device major 254
blktap_ring_init: blktap ring major: 253
netfront: Initialising virtual ethernet driver.
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX3: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:01.1
PIIX3: chipset revision 0
PIIX3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xc000-0xc007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xc008-0xc00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: QEMU HARDDISK, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hdc: QEMU DVD-ROM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
(XEN) PCI add device 00:01.1
hda: max request size: 512KiB
hda: 204800 sectors (104 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=203/255/63, (U)DMA
hda: cache flushes supported
 hda: unknown partition table
hdc: ATAPI 4X CD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, (U)DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Adaptec aacraid driver (1.1-5[2409]-mh2)
3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.26.02.001.
Fusion MPT base driver 3.04.01
Copyright (c) 1999-2005 LSI Logic Corporation
Fusion MPT SPI Host driver 3.04.01
usbmon: debugfs is not available
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
(XEN) PCI add device 00:01.2
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:01.2[D] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 10 (level, high) -> IRQ 10
uhci_hcd 0000:00:01.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:01.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:01.2: irq 10, io base 0x0000c020
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
/ws/stevyang-sjc/hpv/hypervisor/contrib/linux-2.6.18-xen-3.4.2/contents/drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBD,PNP0f13:MOU] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
md: raid0 personality registered for level 0
md: raid1 personality registered for level 1
md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: bitmap version 4.39
device-mapper: ioctl: 4.7.0-ioctl (2006-06-24) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
TCP bic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse as /class/input/input1
Bridge firewalling registered
PCI IO multiplexer device installed.
ACPI: (supports S3 S4 S5)
BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 1 devices found
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: image too big! (524288KiB/4096KiB)
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



  
Thanks ! 
  
SV 

--- On Sat, 3/20/10, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi> wrote:


From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Fw: not syncing
To: "ccmail111" <ccmail111@yahoo.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, "Dan Magenheimer" <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Date: Saturday, March 20, 2010, 4:30 AM


On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 12:44:25AM -0700, ccmail111 wrote:
> Hi Pasi/Dan,
> 
> 1) The error below is:
> 
> > Kernel panic - not syncing: Out of memory
> 

Please paste your grub.conf and the full boot log of the hypervisor.

-- Pasi

> 2) The printk options below seem to be ok.
> But if that not recommended, for Xen 3.4.2/linux-2.6.18-xen  how to enable serial then ?
> 
> Any thoughts ?
> 
> --- On Sat, 3/20/10, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi> wrote:
> 
>   From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi>
>   Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Fw: not syncing
>   To: "ccmail111" <ccmail111@yahoo.com>
>   Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, "Dan Magenheimer" <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
>   Date: Saturday, March 20, 2010, 3:14 AM
> 
>   On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 12:00:40AM -0700, ccmail111 wrote:
>   >
>   > Attaching error I see on serial:
>   >
>   >
>   > (XEN) Dom0 has maximum 1 VCPUs
>   >
>   > (XEN) Scrubbing Free RAM:
>   > ....................................................................done.
>   >
>   > (XEN) Xen trace buffers: disabled
>   >
>   > (XEN) Std. Loglevel: All
>   >
>   > (XEN) Guest Loglevel: Nothing (Rate-limited: Errors and warnings)
>   >
>   > (XEN) *** Serial input -> DOM0 (type 'CTRL-a' three times to switch input to Xen)
>   >
>   > (XEN) Freed 128kB init memory.
>   >
>   > Bootdata ok (command line is root=dev/ram0 ro console=hvc0 earlyprintk=xen
>   > nomodeset)
>   >
> 
>   "console=hvc0 earlyprintk=xen" are options for a pvops dom0 kernel,
>   I don't think linux-2.6.18-xen can use them.
> 
>   -- Pasi
> 
>   > Linux version 2.6.18.8-xen (stevyang@wilma) (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat
>   > 4.1.2-44)) #1 SMP Mon Mar 15 23:23:21 PDT 2010
>   >
>   > BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
>   >
>   >  Xen: 0000000000000000 - 0000000040800000 (usable)
>   >
>   > kernel direct mapping tables up to 40800000 @ 3f736000-3f93d000
>   >
>   > DMI 2.4 present.
>   >
>   > bootmem alloc of 14794752 bytes failed!
>   >
>   > Kernel panic - not syncing: Out of memory
>   >
>   >  (XEN) Domain 0 crashed: 'noreboot' set - not rebooting.
>   >
>   > Any thoughts/suggestions, appreciated !
>   >
>   > Thanks,
>   > SV
>   >
>   > --- On Sat, 3/20/10, ccmail111 <[1]ccmail111@yahoo.com> wrote:
>   >
>   >   From: ccmail111 <[2]ccmail111@yahoo.com>
>   >   Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Fw: Not enough RAM for domain 0 allocation
>   >   To: [3]xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, "Dan Magenheimer"
>   <[4]dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
>   >   Date: Saturday, March 20, 2010, 2:37 AM
>   >
>   >   Thanks Dan.
>   >   I am past that and see different error now:
>   >
>   >   "Xen: Scrubbing Free RAM ............"
>   >   Then the xterm(screen) goes blank..
>   >
>   >   Any thoughts ?
>   >
>   >   SV
>   >   --- On Fri, 3/19/10, Dan Magenheimer <[5]dan.magenheimer@oracle.com> wrote:
>   >
>   >     From: Dan Magenheimer <[6]dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
>   >     Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Fw: Not enough RAM for domain 0 allocation
>   >     To: "ccmail111" <[7]ccmail111@yahoo.com>, [8]xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
>   >     Date: Friday, March 19, 2010, 9:16 PM
>   >
>   >     Your kernel and initrd are compressed and still exceed 512MB?  That is very
>   >     unusual.  Are you building everything in your dom0 kernel? (e.g. answering yes
>   >     to all drivers, and everything when configuring your kernel?)  If so, thatâ**s
>   >     not a good idea and is likely contributing to your problem.
>   >
>   >
>   >
>   >     You didnâ**t say how much memory is in your machine.  If you have enough, you
>   >     can try dom0_mem=768M or dom0_mem=1GB and so on.
>   >
>   >
>   >
>   >     If those suggestions donâ**t work, sorry, maybe someone else can answer but this
>   >     is probably a xen-users list question than a xen-devel question.
>   >
>   >
>   >
>   >     From: ccmail111 [mailto:[9]ccmail111@yahoo.com]
>   >     Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 5:47 PM
>   >     To: [10]xen-devel@lists.xensource.com; Dan Magenheimer
>   >     Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Fw: Not enough RAM for domain 0 allocation
>   >
>   >
>   >
>   >     Hi Dan,
>   >
>   >     Thanks for response.
>   >
>   >
>   >
>   >     I just tried (with dom0_mem=512M) and see error:
>   >
>   >     "Domain 0 allocation is too small for kernel image"
>   >
>   >
>   >
>   >     But if I dont use the parameter I see error as in subject line which is
>   >     different.
>   >
>   >     Question is: does subject line error printed by kernel ? Any kernel parameter
>   >     that I need to change during build ?
>   >
>   >
>   >
>   >     Any suggestions ?
>   >
>   >     Is there anyway I can specifiy the max for kernel and xen ?
>   >
>   >
>   >
>   >     Thanks,
>   >
>   >
>   >
>   >     SV
>   >
>   >
>   >
>   >     --- On Fri, 3/19/10, Dan Magenheimer <[11]dan.magenheimer@oracle.com> wrote:
>   >
>   >       From: Dan Magenheimer <[12]dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
>   >       Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Fw: Not enough RAM for domain 0 allocation
>   >       To: "ccmail111" <[13]ccmail111@yahoo.com>, [14]xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
>   >       Date: Friday, March 19, 2010, 6:10 PM
>   >
>   >       You should be able to get around this problem by specifying dom0_mem= on the
>   >       Xen boot line, e.g.:
>   >
>   >
>   >
>   >       kernel /boot/xen.gz noreboot loglvl=all dom0_mem=256M
>   >
>   >
>   >
>   >     From: ccmail111 [mailto:[15]ccmail111@yahoo.com]
>   >     Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 3:43 PM
>   >     To: [16]xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
>   >     Subject: [Xen-devel] Fw: Not enough RAM for domain 0 allocation
>   >
>   >
>   >
>   >     --- On Fri, 3/19/10, ccmail111 <[17]ccmail111@yahoo.com> wrote:
>   >
>   >     From: ccmail111 <[18]ccmail111@yahoo.com>
>   >     Subject: Not enough RAM for domain 0 allocation
>   >     To: "Fajar A. Nugraha" <[19]fajar@fajar.net>
>   >     Cc: [20]xen-users@lists.xensource.com
>   >     Date: Friday, March 19, 2010, 5:38 PM
>   >
>   >
>   >
>   >     Hi,
>   >
>   >
>   >
>   >     I see above error when xen tries to boot up.
>   >
>   >
>   >
>   >     The grub.conf is:
>   >
>   >
>   >
>   >     title Dom0 Xen 3.4.2  XenLinux 2.6
>   >            kernel /boot/xen.gz noreboot loglvl=all
>   >            module /boot/vmlinuz.vm  root=dev/ram0 ro
>   >            module /boot/ramdisk.gz
>   >
>   >     Looking through archives I found couple of pointers but no solution.
>   >
>   >     The closest I see:
>   >
>   >
>      [1][21]http://www.mailinglistarchive.com/xen-devel@lists.xensource.com/msg56592.html
>   >
>   >     by Keir:
>   >
>   >
>   >
>   >     " Either this restriction of the domain builder needs
>   >     to be lifted (a bit of a pain and not really on anyone's todo list), ..."
>   >
>   >
>   >
>   >     Any solutions/suggestions is appreciated !
>   >
>   >
>   >
>   >     Thanks !
>   >
>   >
>   >
>   >     SV
>   >
>   >
>   >
>   >
>   >
>   >
>   >
>   >
>   >
>   > References
>   >
>   >    Visible links
>   >    1.
>   [22]http://www.mailinglistarchive.com/xen-devel@lists.xensource.com/msg56592.html
> 
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> References
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>    Visible links
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>    2. http://us.mc342.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=ccmail111@yahoo.com
>    3. http://us.mc342.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
>    4. http://us.mc342.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=dan.magenheimer@oracle.com
>    5. http://us.mc342.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=dan.magenheimer@oracle.com
>    6. http://us.mc342.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=dan.magenheimer@oracle.com
>    7. http://us.mc342.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=ccmail111@yahoo.com
>    8. http://us.mc342.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
>    9. http://us.mc342.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=ccmail111@yahoo.com
>   10. http://us.mc342.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
>   11. http://us.mc342.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=dan.magenheimer@oracle.com
>   12. http://us.mc342.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=dan.magenheimer@oracle.com
>   13. http://us.mc342.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=ccmail111@yahoo.com
>   14. http://us.mc342.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
>   15. http://us.mc342.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=ccmail111@yahoo.com
>   16. http://us.mc342.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
>   17. http://us.mc342.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=ccmail111@yahoo.com
>   18. http://us.mc342.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=ccmail111@yahoo.com
>   19. http://us.mc342.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=fajar@fajar.net
>   20. http://us.mc342.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=xen-users@lists.xensource.com
>   21. http://www.mailinglistarchive.com/xen-devel@lists.xensource.com/msg56592.html
>   22. http://www.mailinglistarchive.com/xen-devel@lists.xensource.com/msg56592.html
>   23. http://us.mc342.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
>   24. http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel



      

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Re: [Xen-devel] Error: ramdisk

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk]

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 09:06:22AM -0700, ccmail111 wrote:
> 
>  
> Sure. Thanks again for the prompt help - very appreciated.
> As I see I am trying to do what only few have done wrt Xen dom0 to package as bootable iso with ramdisk.
>  
> Now error below Xen dom 0 is trying to bring up Linux: 
>   
> <..clipped..> 
> 
> md: ... autorun DONE. 
> RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0 
> RAMDISK: image too big! (524288KiB/4096KiB) 
>   
> 
> <...clipped: Details below...> 
>   
>   
>  
> The grub is:
>  
> title SPIRIT OS: Dom0 Xen 3.4 XenLinux 2.6
>        kernel /boot/xen.gz noreboot dom0_mem=8024M loglvl=all  console=com1 com1=115200,8n1
>        module /boot/vmlinuz.vm  root=dev/ram0 ro console=ttyS0, 115200
                                       ^^^ - it needs to be "/dev/ram0",
not "dev/ram0".