Re: [Qemu-discuss] what's wrong with mey qemu-kvm

[lei yang]

It seems initramfs-2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64.img don't contains the
rootfs, what is in it?

if use virtual disk, where could I get the rootfs file such as /lib
/bin /sbin /user ....?

Thanks
Lei


On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Mike Lovell <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 08/24/2012 07:30 PM, lei yang wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I used the redhat RHEL6 boot with initrd but it failed, can sb help me
>>
>> address@hidden boot]# /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm --enable-kvm -smp 8 -m
>> 1024 -net nic,model=virtio -net tap,script=/etc/qemu-ifup -initrd
>> /boot/initramfs-2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64.img  -kernel
>> /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64 -append "root=/dev/ram rw
>> console=ttyS0,115200 " -nographic
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> dracut Warning: No root device "block:/dev/ram" found
>>
>> dracut Warning: Boot has failed. To debug this issue add "rdshell" to
>> the kernel command line.
>>
>>
>> dracut Warning: Signal caught!
>>
>> dracut Warning: Boot has failed. To debug this issue add "rdshell" to
>> the kernel command line.
>> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
>> Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64 #1
>> Call Trace:
>>   [<ffffffff814fd11a>] ? panic+0xa0/0x168
>>   [<ffffffff81070bd2>] ? do_exit+0x862/0x870
>>   [<ffffffff8117ca75>] ? fput+0x25/0x30
>>   [<ffffffff81070c38>] ? do_group_exit+0x58/0xd0
>>   [<ffffffff81070cc7>] ? sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20
>>   [<ffffffff8100b0f2>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
>>
>
> the system is complaining that it can't find a block device to mount the
> root filesystem from. you specify "root=/dev/ram" which isn't something that
> exists. /dev/ram0 does but you probably don't want to use it since its just
> a ram backed device with probably nothing in it. you also don't define a
> disk for the guest to use so there isn't another block device to mount as
> the root filesystem.
>
> you need to get a system for the guest to boot. this can be done by creating
> a virtual disk with qemu-img, attaching the virtual disk and a rhel
> installation cd to the guest, and going though a rhel installation. if you
> aren't sure what that means, you should probably use virt-manager to
> configure your vm.
>
> mike
>