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Re: [Xen-users] RE: DomU boot fails with can't find root on Fedora 6

To: "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] RE: DomU boot fails with can't find root on Fedora 6
From: "Jerry Amundson" <jamundso@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:21:16 -0600
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On 1/31/07, Petersson, Mats <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Try giving mkinitrd a different fstab that contains no reference to LVM
in the root disk... (--fstab=file)

This, for example, I used earlier today...

mkinitrd -f --with=xennet --builtin=aic7xxx --builtin=serverworks
--preload=xenblk --omit-raid-modules --omit-lvm-modules
--fstab=/mnt/etc/fstab  /tmp/initrd-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6xen.img
2.6.19-1.2895.fc6xen

Values for --builtin pulled from dom0's /etc/modprobe.conf
(serverworks, for example is not in the xen module tree).
Assumes domU's root on /mnt...

jerry

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"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"

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