Re: Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

[David F Barrera <dfbp@us.ibm.com>]

Derrik,

Thanks for your response.  Of course I should have given more details! 
(my bad).

The distro I am using is  RHEL 4 Beta 2 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
Desktop release 3.90 (Nahant)

 >>What does the fstab for the domain's root FS look like?

/dev/hdc1               /                       ext2    defaults        1 1
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
LABEL=SWAP-hdc2         swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/hda                /media/cdrom            auto    
pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,ro,exec,noauto,managed 
0 0
/dev/fd0                /media/floppy           auto    
pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,managed 0 0


 >>Also, what does your domain definition file look like?

#----------------------------------------------------------------------------START 
OF DEFINITION FILE
# Kernel image file.
kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-xenU"

# Optional ramdisk.
ramdisk = "/boot/initrd-fc3.img"

# The domain build function. Default is 'linux'.
builder='linux'

# Initial memory allocation (in megabytes) for the new domain.
memory = 64

# A name for your domain. All domains must have different names.
name = "test1"

# disk = [ 'phy:hda1,hda1,r' ]
disk = [ 'phy:hdc1,hdc1,r' ]

# Set if you want dhcp to allocate the IP address.
dhcp="dhcp"
# Set root device.

root = "/dev/hdc1 ro"

# Sets runlevel 4.
extra = "4"
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
END OF DEFINITION FILE  


Derrik Pates wrote:

> David F Barrera wrote:
>
>> I am trying to create an additional domain and have created a 
>> configuration file based on the examples.  When I try to boot the 
>> domain, it eventually hits a Kernel panic, as follows:
>>
>> Red Hat nash version 4.1.18 starting
>> Mounted /proc filesystem
>> Mounting sysfs
>> Creating /dev
>> Starting udev
>> Creating root device
>> Mounting root filesystem
>> mount: error 6 mounting ext3
>> mount: error 2 mounting none
>> Switching to new root
>> switchroot: mount failed: 22
>> umount /initrd/dev failed: 2
>> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
>> <0>Rebooting in 1 seconds..
>> -----------------------------------
>
>
> Which RH flavor is this? I've so far had Fedora Core 2 and 3, as well 
> as CentOS, running happily inside a Xen domain. What does the fstab 
> for the domain's root FS look like? Also, what does your domain 
> definition file look like?
>


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