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

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

Ian,

It was a setup problem after all. Mea culpa.

One thing I had to do was to change the /etc/fstab on the xenU partition 
(hdc1 in my machine):
/dev/sda1               /                       ext2    defaults        
1 1   <----------- I had the original /dev/hdc1 here

to match the xen config file:
disk = [ 'phy:hdc1,0801,w' ]   < ---- This suggestion you gave to use 
'0801' and 'sda1' works for some reason. 
                                                        Using  'hdc1' 
here and on the root = /dev/ line does NOT work, as you were aware.
root = "/dev/sda1 ro"

I need to have an initrd in order to have a console.  It will not work 
without it:
# Kernel image file.
kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-xenU"
# Optional ramdisk.
ramdisk = "/boot/initrd-2.6.9-xenU.img"


Thanks for all your suggestions!

David F Barrera

Ian Pratt wrote:

>>OK. I copied all the contents from (hdc3) /dev to (hdc1) 
>>/dev, and that let's me boot xenU on hdc1.  The problem, 
>>however, is that this is not they way RHEL 4 works--I need to 
>>figure out how the xen0 is able to boot off essentially the 
>>same setup.
>>    
>>
>
>Have you tried using the xen0 kernel in the other domain? It's possible
>there's some difference in the .config that is causing this.
>  
>
I tried this just for kicks, and, of course, it worked.

>Ian
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