----- "Christopher Hunt" <dharmachris at gmail.com> wrote: > 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? This is the initrd, running in the context of the guest. dom0 doesn't matter at this point. > lvm vgchange -ay --ignorelockingfailure vg00 > resume /dev/vg00/swap00 If swap00 is the name of the LV for the guest, those look correct. > mkrootdev -t ext3 -o defaults,ro /dev/mapper/vg00-root If "root" is the name of the LV for the guest, that looks okay, too. > Also, should the xen host config file (/etc/xen/guest02) root > parameter point to the dom0 root or the block device for the domU? The guest's. That is basically what would go on the kernel command line, say, in grub.conf. -- Christopher G. Stach II