Since I run r1soft, I need to use a custom-built Kernel.

I'm running CentOS 6, I just installed the default CentOS kernel via yum, changed my kernel to pv.

Here is my menu.lst;

timeout 5
title Custom Compiled Kernel
root (hd0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-220.23.1.el6.i686 root=/dev/xvda ro quiet

# file /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-220.23.1.el6.i686
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-220.23.1.el6.i686: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage, version 2.6.32-220.23.1.el6.i686 (mockb, RO-rootFS, swap_dev 0x3, Normal VGA

When booting, it kernel panic's with the following error:

http://i.imgur.com/rjQYL.png

Any ideas?

Thanks!

No one?

You may want to try pastebinning your kernel configuration. Also, removing "quiet" from your kernel args will make it more verbose, possibly providing more information.

-Tim

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Without quiet:

"VFS: Cannot open root device xvda or unknown-block(0,0)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:"

I didn't do a custom kernel, used the default centos RPM kernel, which doesn't seem to have support for the xen filesystem?

Sounds about right. You usually want a distribution supplied kernel that has "Xen" in the name. I'd imagine CentOS has a Xen kernel, but I'm not familiar with the packages they offer.

-Tim

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'If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.' //Edsger Dijkstra
'Nothing is withheld from us which we have conceived to do.' | 'Do things that have never been done.' //Russell Kirsch

There is no xen kernel for CentOS, the standard kernel has xen support.

You want something like this.

# boot=/dev/xvda
# kopt=root=/dev/xvda console=tty0 console=hvc0 ro quiet
# groot=(hd0)

default=0
timeout=0

title CentOS (2.6.32-220.23.1.el6.i686)
root (hd0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-220.23.1.el6.i686 root=/dev/xvda console=tty0 console=hvc0 ro quiet crashkernel=auto SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 KEYTABLE=us
initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.32-220.23.1.el6.i686.img

Unless I'm terribly mistaken RHEL does not provide a Xen kernel, so I would assume that Centos does not add one.




Are you sure? My impression was that they dropped official Xen support entirely in favor of kvm.

They dropped support for the hypervisor, but running as a guest is still supported.

Do you have this working with CentOS 6? I can't get it to boot up with your grub config either.