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XenoTerraCide
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 Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 3:53 pm Post subject: xen gentoo virtual host [solved] |
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I'm trying to run gentoo on top of a centos xen server. I'm unable to boot all the way and don't know why.
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| Code: | VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) read only
Freeing unused kernel memory: 312k freed
Warning: unable to open an initial console |
I don't know why or what would be causing this. any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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IQgryn
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| Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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It sounds like you're missing the static devices needed in /dev/ before udev takes over. Mine looks like this: | Code: | iqgryn ~ # mount --bind / /mnt
iqgryn ~ # ls /mnt/dev/
console null
iqgryn ~ # ls -l /mnt/dev/
total 0
crw------- 1 root tty 5, 1 Oct 19 2005 console
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Oct 19 2005 null
iqgryn ~ # |
If you don't have those devices, use mknod to create them: | Code: | cd /dev
mknod console c 5 1
mknod null c 1 3 |
Make sure /dev is not mounted separately before you do this. If you need to, you can run | Code: | | mount --bind / /mnt |
and then use /mnt/dev instead of /dev above. |
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XenoTerraCide
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about to test. do you know if I need anything in any of the other pseudo filesystems like proc or sys before hand? what happened is I had this running on his kernel and I had some issues because centos is still on 2.6.9 so instead of doing a fresh tarball install I rsync-ed over all the "static" fs's so I'm wondering if I may have missed other things.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 11:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Neither my /proc nor my /sys have anything in them before the pseudo filesystems get mounted. I think you're covered, but let me know if you get more errors. |
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yeah I did but, I realized what the issue was (with that one), and it was me being stupid. anyways I'm just going to reinstall... It'll be easier... it may even be the only solution because I have to repartition.
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