From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eric S. Johansson" Subject: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0) Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 00:17:25 -0500 Message-ID: <421AC065.7080307@harvee.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org google yields nothing except for indicating that it is a boot loader problem. my dom0 partition is on a 9 GB SCSI disk drive. I have a raid1 device (md0) which I have created a series of partitions via lvm2. on boot, xm create /etc/xen/xm-single -c I get what looks like a normal boot until TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 8192) NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0) <0>Rebooting in 1 seconds.. the configuration file defines the disk as: disk = [ 'phy:bigraid/root_harvee,sda1,w' ] I've tried root definitions root = "/dev/sda1 ro" and no root definitions. a pointer to the documentation I should be reading would be helpful. ---eric -- http://www.salon.com/books/review/2004/12/18/heloise/index.html The basis of Abelard's philosophy, which he taught to Heloise, was that logic had to be applied to religion in order to arrive at the truth. ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click