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

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

Derrick,

I rebuilt the xenU kernel, with the devfs support disabled, and it makes 
no difference. It behaves in the same manner as the pre-built kernel 
that's included with the binary pack.  I am at a loss. I've been able to 
boot a kernel under xen on a SuSE Linux 9.0 machine, so I've had a 
little experience with this:-) 

Freeing unused kernel memory: 92k freed
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..


David Barrera


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


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