(Resending after reopening bug.) I encountered this bug in a fresh squeeze install this week. I believe the problem was that my dom0 was using ext4 filesystems (and not ext3), while my domU was using an ext3 root filesystem. Therefore, the initramfs created for dom0 did not include the ext3 module and domU could not boot.
After running the following commands on dom0, the domU booted successfully: root@xen2:~# echo ext3 >> /etc/initramfs-tools/modules root@xen2:~# update-initramfs -u I suspect this may be more a bug in xen-tools than in initramfs-tools. Before encountering this bug, I had already had to add "xen-blkfront" to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules to fix the problem described in bug #640099. Perhaps the more general problem here is that xen-tools is creating domUs with initramfs that are tailored for dom0 and not domU. For instance, the boot output below also shows an attempt to find the dom0's LVM volumes, which are irrelevant for the domU. Excerpt of console output from domU before adding ext3 to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules: Loading, please wait... [ 0.207272] udev[46]: starting version 164 [ 0.283519] blkfront: xvda2: barriers enabled [ 0.294047] blkfront: xvda1: barriers enabled Begin: Loading essential drivers ... [ 0.568088] SCSI subsystem initialized [ 0.592665] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3 [ 0.593187] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.15.0-ioctl (2009-04-01) initialised: dm-de...@redhat.com done. Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount ... done. Begin: Mounting root file system ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ... Volume group "xen2" not found Skipping volume group xen2 Unable to find LVM volume xen2/dom0-swap done. Begin: Running /scripts/local-premount ... done. mount: mounting /dev/xvda2 on /root failed: No such device Begin: Running /scripts/local-bottom ... done. done. Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom ... mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: No such file or directory done. mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory mount: mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: No such file or directory Target filesystem doesn't have requested /sbin/init. No init found. Try passing init= bootarg. Versions of some relevant packages on dom0: root@xen2:~# dpkg -l | egrep "(linux-image|initram|xen)" ii initramfs-tools 0.98.8 tools for generating an initramfs ii libklibc 1.5.20-1+squeeze1 minimal libc subset for use with initramfs ii libxenstore3.0 4.0.1-4 Xenstore communications library for Xen ii linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 2.6.32-41 Linux 2.6.32 for 64-bit PCs ii linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 2.6.32-41 Linux 2.6.32 for 64-bit PCs, Xen dom0 support ii xen-hypervisor-4.0-amd64 4.0.1-4 The Xen Hypervisor on AMD64 ii xen-linux-system-2.6-xen-amd64 2.6.32+29 Xen system with Linux 2.6 for 64-bit PCs (meta-package) ii xen-linux-system-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 2.6.32-41 Xen system with Linux 2.6.32 on 64-bit PCs (meta-package) ii xen-qemu-dm-4.0 4.0.1-2+squeeze1 Xen Qemu Device Model virtual machine hardware emulator ii xen-tools 4.2-1 Tools to manage Xen virtual servers ii xen-utils-4.0 4.0.1-4 XEN administrative tools ii xen-utils-common 4.0.0-1 XEN administrative tools - common files ii xenstore-utils 4.0.1-4 Xenstore utilities for Xen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
