Hello,
I have a fresh install of 11.2 rc 2. I’ve decided to try xen virtualization to host windows (xp or 7, I’ll see…). However I cannot get it working.
My root system is on ext4 and it looks like xen isn’t capable of coping with it. The installation erased menu.lst, but I’ve managed to write it again. Xen starts, but when it gives control to dom0 (disappears (XEN) in the beginning of each line), it fails with error that it couldn’t mount root partition because of unknown filesystem - ext4. I cannot rewrite the exact error message because it’s quite long and I don’t know how to save it when I have only /bin/sh (i.e. no bash, dash or something).
Maybe I have menu.lst wrong and/or there is no ext4 support in initrd or maybe there is wrong initrd specified. The relevant entry is this:
title Kernel-xen
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/xen-3.4.1_19718_03-1.7.gz
module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31.3-1-xen resume=/dev/sda3 splash=silent showopts vga=0x323
module /boot/initrd-2.6.31.3-1-xen
Here’s whats in /boot:
linux-l0al:/home/garion # ls -l /boot/
celkem 40464
-rw------- 1 root root 512 4.*lis 19.12 backup_mbr
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 29.*říj 14.45 boot -> .
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1236 24.*říj 02.42 boot.readme
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 12.*říj 20.58 config-2.6.31.3-1-xen
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 108796 27.*říj 11.19 config-2.6.31.5-0.1-default
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 4.*lis 21.13 grub
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 4.*lis 19.16 initrd -> initrd-2.6.31.5-0.1-default
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 4.*lis 18.53 initrd-xen -> initrd-2.6.31.3-1-xen
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7565458 4.*lis 19.16 initrd-2.6.31.3-1-xen
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8153079 4.*lis 19.16 initrd-2.6.31.5-0.1-default
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 164376 19.*říj 21.21 memtest.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 411648 4.*lis 19.16 message
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 169854 12.*říj 20.59 symvers-2.6.31.3-1-xen.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 172658 27.*říj 11.19 symvers-2.6.31.5-0.1-default.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1324800 12.*říj 20.12 System.map-2.6.31.3-1-xen
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1385997 27.*říj 10.58 System.map-2.6.31.5-0.1-default
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 29.*říj 14.45 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.6.31.5-0.1-default
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 4.*lis 18.53 vmlinuz-xen -> vmlinuz-2.6.31.3-1-xen
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3154279 12.*říj 20.13 vmlinuz-2.6.31.3-1-xen
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3672800 27.*říj 10.59 vmlinuz-2.6.31.5-0.1-default
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 4.*lis 20.20 xen-dbg.gz -> xen-dbg-3.4.1_19718_03-1.7.gz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 4.*lis 20.20 xen-dbg-3.gz -> xen-dbg-3.4.1_19718_03-1.7.gz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 4.*lis 20.20 xen-dbg-3.4.gz -> xen-dbg-3.4.1_19718_03-1.7.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 481324 9.*říj 14.44 xen-dbg-3.4.1_19718_03-1.7.gz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 4.*lis 20.20 xen.gz -> xen-3.4.1_19718_03-1.7.gz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 4.*lis 20.20 xen-syms -> xen-syms-3.4.1_19718_03-1.7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 4.*lis 20.20 xen-syms-dbg -> xen-syms-dbg-3.4.1_19718_03-1.7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6998442 9.*říj 14.44 xen-syms-dbg-3.4.1_19718_03-1.7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7124565 9.*říj 14.46 xen-syms-3.4.1_19718_03-1.7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 4.*lis 20.20 xen-3.gz -> xen-3.4.1_19718_03-1.7.gz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 4.*lis 20.20 xen-3.4.gz -> xen-3.4.1_19718_03-1.7.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 499018 9.*říj 14.46 xen-3.4.1_19718_03-1.7.gz
Any ideas what might be wrong? Thanks in advance!