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From: "David S. Ahern" <daahern@cisco.com>
To: Nirmal Guhan <vavatutu@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: qemu-kvm and initrd
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:38:13 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C8F96E5.4040707@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimGePWwYRoqZApD+bAamrn2MXwH-x85=pQaPtVU@mail.gmail.com>



On 09/14/10 00:35, Nirmal Guhan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Getting an error while booting my guest with -initrd option as in :
> 
> qemu-kvm -net nic,macaddr=$macaddress -net tap,script=/etc/qemu-ifup
> -m 512 -hda /root/kvm/x86/vdisk.img -kernel /root/mvroot/bzImage
> -initrd /root/kvm/mv/ramdisk.img -append "root=/dev/ram0"
> 
> No filesystem could mount root, tried : ext3 ext2 ext4 vfat msds iso9660
> Kernel panic
> 
> #file ramdisk.img
> #ramdisk.img: Linux rev 1.0 ext2 filesystem data (mounted or unclean)

What's the size of ramdisk.img?

David


>
> I tried with both above initrd and gzipped initrd but same error.
> 
> If I try to mount the same file and do a -append  "ip=dhcp
> root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=xxxx:/root/kvm/mv/mnt" instead of -initrd
> option, it works  fine. So am guessing this is initrd related.
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Nirmal
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-14 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-14  6:35 qemu-kvm and initrd Nirmal Guhan
2010-09-14 15:38 ` David S. Ahern [this message]
2010-09-14 19:38   ` Nirmal Guhan
2010-09-14 19:43     ` David S. Ahern

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