Problem in booting OpenVZ kernel in Fedora 9

Hi,

I am trying to install OpenVZ in Fedora 9 with the help of "Installing And Using OpenVZ On Fedora 9" published in How to Forge article section.

Everything went ok except, the system is showing error as
"Unable to access resume device (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01)
Could not find filesystem '/dev/root' ", while booting and system don't get booted.

However the system is booting with original kernel.

Please help me to resolve this problem


Anoop Prasad

 

Can you post your /boot/grub/menu.lst and /etc/fstab?

 

Thanks for Reply
Following is my /boot/grub/menu.lst and /etc/fstab files.

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#



[root@ringserver grub]# vi /etc/fstab
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
UUID=d57c2416-ec95-4f9e-bbe9-8f9e0b10eef8 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0





Thank you once again.

Anoop Prasad

 

The menu.lst is missing...

 

Thanks for reply.

[root@ringserver ~]# vi /boot/grub/menu.lst
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora OpenVZ-2(2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.028stab057.2)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.028stab057.2 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.028stab057.2.img
title Fedora (2.6.25-14.fc9.i686)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 ro root=UUID=f76efca2-601c-491b-bec2-dbce4cff5a90 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686.img




Anoop Prasad

 

I'm not sure why it says LogVol01.

What are the outputs of

Code:

pvdisplay
vgdisplay
lvdisplay

?

 

Thnks for the reply.

 

Thanking You for being with me for so long.

Following is vgdisplay, pvdisplay and lvdisplay


[root@ringserver ~]# pvdisplay
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sda2
VG Name VolGroup00
PV Size 74.34 GB / not usable 340.50 KB
Allocatable yes
PE Size (KByte) 32768
Total PE 2379
Free PE 1
Allocated PE 2378
PV UUID aBeWug-eP6V-QMMr-XL4C-IfVQ-ecfq-4tIElU


[root@ringserver ~]# vgdisplay
--- Volume group ---
VG Name VolGroup00
System ID
Format lvm2
Metadata Areas 1
Metadata Sequence No 3
VG Access read/write
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 0
Cur LV 2
Open LV 2
Max PV 0
Cur PV 1
Act PV 1
VG Size 74.34 GB
PE Size 32.00 MB
Total PE 2379
Alloc PE / Size 2378 / 74.31 GB
Free PE / Size 1 / 32.00 MB
VG UUID 0UCZxW-G211-CXbw-O1uR-0V5Y-VDqV-CXUSDw

[root@ringserver ~]# lvdisplay

--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
VG Name VolGroup00
LV UUID iVEiYe-irBA-MGsz-qIXC-lh77-oNqx-KGKeQx
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 73.34 GB
Current LE 2347
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 253:0

--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01
VG Name VolGroup00
LV UUID irxfgk-cEIe-yng1-eO0R-FTbY-59NF-anG12Q
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 992.00 MB
Current LE 31
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 253:1





Anoop Prasad

 

Ok there you have /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01. What partition do you have on that volume?
What's the output of

Code:

mount

, and what's in /etc/mtab?

 

Similar problem

I was having a similar problem with the error about the resume device. I resolved this problem by unpacking the initrd file and editing the init file to remove the reference. Instructions for unpacking/repacking the initird are here: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=111565

I also converted all UUID references in /etc/fstab to /dev/sda references.

I still get the error "could not find filesystem '/dev/root'".

The grub/menu.lst entry is this:
title Fedora OpenVZ (2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.028stab057.2)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.028stab057.2 ro root=/dev/sda2 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.028stab057.2.img

/etc/fstab:
/dev/sda2 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/sda5 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2

/etc/mtab:
/dev/sda2 / ext3 rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/sda5 /home ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/sda1 /boot ext3 rw 0 0

output from mount is similar.