ugh.... after doing inglorious battle, I return. It's definitely situation (1). The error messages haven't changed. Inside the init file, should the paths references be from the point of view of Dom0? lvm vgchange -ay --ignorelockingfailure vg00 resume /dev/vg00/swap00 echo Creating root device. mkrootdev -t ext3 -o defaults,ro /dev/mapper/vg00-root echo Mounting root filesystem. mount /sysroot echo Setting up other filesystems. setuproot echo Switching to new root and running init. switchroot Also, should the xen host config file (/etc/xen/guest02) root parameter point to the dom0 root or the block device for the domU? root = "/dev/mapper/virt01vg00-c5root00 ro" ##dom0's root file system Thanks very much, Christopher Hunt On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Christopher G. Stach II <cgs at ldsys.net>wrote: > > ----- "Christopher G. Stach II" <cgs at ldsys.net> wrote: > > > 1. mkinitrd --with=xenblk --with=xennet --preload=xenblk > > --preload=xennet <img> <version> > > (yes, that's the original one without the fstab) > > 2. gunzip -c /boot/initrd-blah.img > /root/blah > > 3. mkdir /mnt/blah > > 4. mount -o loop /root/blah /mnt/blah > > 5. vi /mnt/blah/init > > <change occurrences of dom0 VG to guest VG> > > <change dom0 root device name to guest root device name> > > 6. umount /mnt/blah > > 7. gzip -c /root/blah > /boot/initrd-blah.img > > If you followed these directions, you're probably scratching your head. I > screwed up. The initrd is actually a cpio archive, so: > > 1. mkinitrd --with=xenblk --with=xennet --preload=xenblk --preload=xennet > <img> <version> > (yes, that's the original one without the fstab) > 2. mkdir /root/initrd-blah > 3. cd /root/initrd-blah > 4. gunzip -c /boot/initrd-blah.img | cpio -idmv > 5. vi /root/initrd-blah/init > 6. find . -print | cpio -o | gzip -c > /boot/initrd-blah.img > > -- > Christopher G. Stach II > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/20091109/40743a18/attachment-0006.html>