Hi, where does you root-device reside on? Do you use sda or hda? Can you post your DomU-config (without comments) here? What messages do you get before LVM complains? It might be that you don't have the rigth drivers in your DomU-initrd (any more)... Kind regards, Nils > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-virt-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-virt-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Devraj Mukherjee > Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 4:47 AM > To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS > Subject: [CentOS-virt] Domain0 with Kernel > 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5xen fails toboot Guests with Kernel > 2.6.18-164.el5xen > > Hi all, > > I am in a bit of a fix here, I have several Guests > paravirtualized running on a Dom0 that is currently running > the 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5xen Kernel. All my guests (administered > by different people) have subsequently been updated to later > versions of the kernel (namely 2.6.18-164.el5xen or > 2.6.18-128.4.1.el5xen). > > Ones that are still running are using the Kernel > 2.6.18-128.4.1.el5xen while Dom0 is still booted up into > 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5xen > > I restarted a Guest that's now trying to boot with the > 2.6.18-164.el5xen Kernel and it spits out messages like > XENBUS: Waiting for devices to initialise: 295s...290s... > > and eventually reboots. > > If I try and interrupt the boot and choose a previous version > of the Kernel on the Guest, it says the following and fails > to boot. The guests use a single disk image that has the SWAP > and Root partitions. > > Is this happening because the version of the kernel on the > Dom0 is way too old for guests to boot? I am just a bit > hesitant in rebooting my server for the new kernel to take > effect unless I am sure :) > > device-mapper: dm-raid45: initialized v0.2429 Scanning and > configuring dmraid supported devices Scanning logical volumes > Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... > Activating logical volumes > Volume group "VolGroup00" not found > Creating root device. > Mounting root filesystem. > mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root' > Setting up other filesystems. > Setting up new root fs > setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory no > fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults > setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory > setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory > Switching to new root and running init. > unmounting old /dev > unmounting old /proc > unmounting old /sys > switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory Kernel > panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! > > > -- > "The secret impresses no-one, the trick you use it for is everything" > - Alfred Borden (The Prestiege) > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt >