From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: Booting Failures when using linux-2.6.33.2
	asDomUwith paravirt-ops support
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:46:48 -0400
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> I do not use any logical volumes, so I do not need to use LVM name when writing the guest
> configuration file. In linux-2.6.33.2, CONFIG_DM_LINEAR does not exist. Thus I select the 
> corresponding one as "y", which named CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DM. However, it also does not work, 
> and the output is the same.
> 
> It is really a difficult problem for me. Thank you again for your help!

I believe you are hitting in the problem that your initrd was created
with older tools (say RHEL5 ones) which expect a certain SysFS layout. The new kernels
have a different one and require this options to be turned on:

CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2=y