Problem on FC3

Problem on FC3

[Adhamh Findlay]

I'm getting a VFS kernel panic when trying to booting to FC3 from Xen.  
Its the one that says I must supply a valid "root=" option.  (sorry I 
don't have it verbatim.) 

I'm using the xen-2.0 binary installer, kernel 2.6.9.  I am using 
ext3fs, but I am fairly certain that I have compiled support into the 
kernel. (I've tired compile xen from the 2.0 and nighltly source too :-).

I've tired Keir's suggestions but to no avail... I'm fairly new to 
linux, but not to unix.  I'm just don't know what to try next.

Suggestions?

Here's my setup:

Device Boot
/dev/hdc1
/dev/hdc2            FreeBSD
/dev/hdc3            FC3 Boot (ext3fs)
/dev/hdc4            Extended
/dev/hdc5            FC3 Root (ext3fs)
/dev/hdc6            FC 3 swap

I've also got other partitions.

Grub.conf:

default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd1,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu

title Xen 2.6 / XenLinux
        kernel /xen.gz dom0_mem=131072 console=vga
        module/vmlinuz-2.6.9-xen0 root=/dev/sdc5 ro console=tty0
        module /initrd-fc3.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667)
        root (hd1,2)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
        initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img

Contents of  boot partition, root(hd1,2):

-rw-r--r--  1 root root   50929 Nov  2 11:53 config-2.6.9-1.667
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   22966 Nov 15 21:49 config-2.6.9-xen0
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   10151 Nov 15 21:49 config-2.6.9-xenU
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  487036 Nov 12 17:24 initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 348 Nov 15 13:35 initrd-fc3.img
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  714266 Nov  2 11:53 System.map-2.6.9-1.667
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  609835 Nov 15 21:49 System.map-2.6.9-xen0
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  397977 Nov 15 21:49 System.map-2.6.9-xenU
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 4862527 Nov 15 21:49 vmlinux-syms-2.6.9-xen0
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 2718941 Nov 15 21:49 vmlinux-syms-2.6.9-xenU
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1405861 Nov  2 11:53 vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1807764 Nov 15 21:49 vmlinuz-2.6.9-xen0
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1017813 Nov 15 21:49 vmlinuz-2.6.9-xenU
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      18 Nov 15 21:49 xenolinux.gz -> 
vmlinuz-2.6.9-xen0




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Re: Problem on FC3

[Keir Fraser]

Your GRUB config is wrong -- it should specify 'root=/dev/hdc5', not
sdc5. 

 -- Keir

> I'm getting a VFS kernel panic when trying to booting to FC3 from Xen.  
> Its the one that says I must supply a valid "root=" option.  (sorry I 
> don't have it verbatim.) 
> 
> I'm using the xen-2.0 binary installer, kernel 2.6.9.  I am using 
> ext3fs, but I am fairly certain that I have compiled support into the 
> kernel. (I've tired compile xen from the 2.0 and nighltly source too :-).
> 
> I've tired Keir's suggestions but to no avail... I'm fairly new to 
> linux, but not to unix.  I'm just don't know what to try next.
> 
> Suggestions?
> 
> Here's my setup:
> 
> Device Boot
> /dev/hdc1
> /dev/hdc2            FreeBSD
> /dev/hdc3            FC3 Boot (ext3fs)
> /dev/hdc4            Extended
> /dev/hdc5            FC3 Root (ext3fs)
> /dev/hdc6            FC 3 swap
> 
> I've also got other partitions.
> 
> Grub.conf:
> 
> default=0
> timeout=5
> splashimage=(hd1,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> hiddenmenu
> 
> title Xen 2.6 / XenLinux
>         kernel /xen.gz dom0_mem=131072 console=vga
>         module/vmlinuz-2.6.9-xen0 root=/dev/sdc5 ro console=tty0
>         module /initrd-fc3.img
> title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667)
>         root (hd1,2)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
>         initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
> 
> Contents of  boot partition, root(hd1,2):
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   50929 Nov  2 11:53 config-2.6.9-1.667
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   22966 Nov 15 21:49 config-2.6.9-xen0
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   10151 Nov 15 21:49 config-2.6.9-xenU
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  487036 Nov 12 17:24 initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 348 Nov 15 13:35 initrd-fc3.img
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  714266 Nov  2 11:53 System.map-2.6.9-1.667
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  609835 Nov 15 21:49 System.map-2.6.9-xen0
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  397977 Nov 15 21:49 System.map-2.6.9-xenU
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 4862527 Nov 15 21:49 vmlinux-syms-2.6.9-xen0
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 2718941 Nov 15 21:49 vmlinux-syms-2.6.9-xenU
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1405861 Nov  2 11:53 vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1807764 Nov 15 21:49 vmlinuz-2.6.9-xen0
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1017813 Nov 15 21:49 vmlinuz-2.6.9-xenU
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      18 Nov 15 21:49 xenolinux.gz -> 
> vmlinuz-2.6.9-xen0
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Problem on FC3

[Adhamh Findlay]

Keir Fraser wrote:

>Your GRUB config is wrong -- it should specify 'root=/dev/hdc5', not
>sdc5. 
>
> -- Keir
>
Wow, I feel stupid.  SCSI versus IDE, doh!  I'll give it a shot.

Adhamh



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plan 9 status

[Ronald G. Minnich]

plan 9 is now using its "hard drive" (Xen vbd) and is able to cpu to
itself (think of cpu as ssh). There is a nagging authentication problem
such that I can not use drawterm (kind of xterm+ssh) to plan 9, but once
that one is fixed I'm going to release vmware images.

Right now it's:
1 running against an older xen
2 contains debug console output
3 slower than I'd like (need to get to those 10 second full kernel builds 
  I'm used to)
4 using its own loader 

I intend to fix these things in order 1,2,3,4

Lots of time hiccups as SC '04 dominated my life this month.

Once this is done I can start playing with some ideas I've been wanting to 
try in Plan 9.

ron



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Re: plan 9 status

[Wesley Parish]

Well, I've got at least two releases of Plan 9, so it can be taken for granted 
I've signed on the dotted line, etc, ad infinitum ad nauseam.  The source 
code's locked up in the cdrom image and the vmware disk images - is there a 
way to get ahold of the source code minus the cdromageness and vmwareness?

I'm wanting to run Plan 9 plus Linux plus NetBSD plus FreeBSD (plus VSTa plus 
Syllable, etc - when I get around to it! ;) and have just got myself some 
more hardware for that purpose.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Wesley Parish

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 04:04, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> plan 9 is now using its "hard drive" (Xen vbd) and is able to cpu to
> itself (think of cpu as ssh). There is a nagging authentication problem
> such that I can not use drawterm (kind of xterm+ssh) to plan 9, but once
> that one is fixed I'm going to release vmware images.
>
> Right now it's:
> 1 running against an older xen
> 2 contains debug console output
> 3 slower than I'd like (need to get to those 10 second full kernel builds
>   I'm used to)
> 4 using its own loader
>
> I intend to fix these things in order 1,2,3,4
>
> Lots of time hiccups as SC '04 dominated my life this month.
>
> Once this is done I can start playing with some ideas I've been wanting to
> try in Plan 9.
>
> ron
>
>
>
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Wesley Parish
* * *
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* * *
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Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata."
I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."


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Re: plan 9 status

[Dick Davies]

* Wesley Parish <wes.parish@paradise.net.nz> [1113 10:13]:
> Well, I've got at least two releases of Plan 9, so it can be taken for granted 
> I've signed on the dotted line, etc, ad infinitum ad nauseam.  The source 
> code's locked up in the cdrom image and the vmware disk images - is there a 
> way to get ahold of the source code minus the cdromageness and vmwareness?

I'm probably missing something (no coffee yet) but can't you just mount the ISO?
 
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/RANT- plan9 downloads/ Re: plan 9 status

[Wesley Parish]

<RANT MODE=ON>
In the mean time, might I suggest to the Plan9 organizers that if they are in 
any way sincere about having their code getting a good airing, they might 
consider lightening up on their stupid licensing requirements?  By including 
such ridiculous requirements in their license, they restrict downloads to one 
machine, and that poor machine doesn't have the capacity of the likes of 
sourceforge's international system of download mirrors.

I get very, very irate when the server claps out on me while I'm downloading 
something that has been offered freely to me - it raises the suspicion that 
the offer was bogus.
<RANT MODE=OFF>

Well, that's off my chest, and on the wrong mailing list, for which I am very 
sorry, but it's a pain.

Thanks

Wesley Parish

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 23:17, Dick Davies wrote:
> * Wesley Parish <wes.parish@paradise.net.nz> [1113 10:13]:
> > Well, I've got at least two releases of Plan 9, so it can be taken for
> > granted I've signed on the dotted line, etc, ad infinitum ad nauseam. 
> > The source code's locked up in the cdrom image and the vmware disk images
> > - is there a way to get ahold of the source code minus the cdromageness
> > and vmwareness?
>
> I'm probably missing something (no coffee yet) but can't you just mount the
> ISO?

-- 
Wesley Parish
* * *
Clinersterton beademung - in all of love.  RIP James Blish
* * *
Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?"
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Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata."
I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."


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Re: /RANT- plan9 downloads/ Re: plan 9 status

[David Hopwood]

Wesley Parish wrote:
> <RANT MODE=ON>
> In the mean time, might I suggest to the Plan9 organizers that if they are in 
> any way sincere about having their code getting a good airing, they might 
> consider lightening up on their stupid licensing requirements?  By including 
> such ridiculous requirements in their license, they restrict downloads to one 
> machine, and that poor machine doesn't have the capacity of the likes of 
> sourceforge's international system of download mirrors.

I don't see any provisions in version 1.02 of the license that would
require this.
<http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/license.html>

Most of the arguments RMS put forward against the license
<http://gnu.intissite.com/philosophy/plan-nine.html> appear not to apply
to version 1.02. The only non-frivolous complaint I can see that still
applies to the current version is the indemnification clause
(4. COMMERCIAL DISTRIBUTION). And that appears to be mainly sloppy
wording (the first paragraph seems to be stronger than the apparent
intent described in the second "For example," paragraph.)

-- 
David Hopwood <david.nospam.hopwood@blueyonder.co.uk>



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