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

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

Derrik ,

Thanks for the feedback.

Derrik Pates wrote:

> David F Barrera wrote:
>
>> The distro I am using is  RHEL 4 Beta 2 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
>> Desktop release 3.90 (Nahant)
>
>
>> /dev/hdc1               /                       ext2    
>> defaults        1 1
>
>
>> 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
>
>
>> # disk = [ 'phy:hda1,hda1,r' ]
>> disk = [ 'phy:hdc1,hdc1,r' ]
>
>
> Well, the configuration of the virtual disk looks correct; the swap 
> might disagree with it, but that shouldn't appear until later in the 
> boot process. Perhaps it's an interaction with devfs? Do you have 
> devfs enabled in your xenU (unprivileged domain) kernel? This gave me 
> fits when I first began using Xen, mostly because it seems that the 
> xenU prebuilt kernel that's included with the binary pack has devfs 
> support enabled, and this breaks things. 

I will try rebuilding the xenU kernel.

> The only other possibility I can think of is that you need to change 
> the block-device import to read-write.

I've already tried changing the block-device import to read-write. No 
difference.


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