Pasi, Thanks very much for the tip. That did give me some additional information: Scanning and configuring dmraid supported devices Scanning logical volumes Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Activating logical volumes Volume group "virt01vg00" 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! This brings me back to suspecting the problem is in the different file structures. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the other replies in this thread. On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 11:49:41AM -0800, Christopher Hunt wrote: > > First let me say that I'm not a sysadmin, but am simply wearing that > hat > > this week so please excuse my ignorance. I need to temporarily move > some > > virtual servers from a CentOS-KVM platform to a CentOS-XEN platform > while > > I do some upgrades to the CentOS box. I've created a local LV, and > used > > DD and SCP to transfer the block device from the VKM machine to the > XEN > > machine. For quite a while I struggled with the "Error: (2, 'Invalid > > kernel', 'xc_dom_parse_elf_kernel: ELF image has no shstrtab\n')" > error > > but thanks to Nick Couchman from > > [1] > http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2008-03/msg00603.html, > > I've passed that. Now I'm stuck with a kernel panic situation. > > Unfortunately the kernel panic error doesn't appear using "xm console" > and > > flashes so quickly through "virt-viewer" that I can't get any details. > > > > Stop the guest and edit /etc/xen/<guest> cfgfile. > > Remove (or comment out) the vfb line, and then restart the guest. > > Now you get the full console output to "xm console". > > -- Pasi > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20091109/20a7e795/attachment-0006.html>