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Server 9 VM Guest will not be able to find its root file system when running on a SUSE
Linux Enterprise Server 10 VM Host Server.
To be able to still boot the system, you must know which device is used for the root
partition of your virtual system. For example, hdaxx will be changed to xvdaxx
where xx is the partition number.
When booting the system, you have to append an extra root option to the kernel com-
mand line, that tells the system about its root file system. If your VM Guest used to
live on /dev/hda2, append the string root=/dev/xvda2 to the kernel command
line. This option should enable you to boot the system, although additional filesystems
still will not be available to the system.
To make all the needed file systems available to the VM Guest, do the following:
In order to have a valid initial ramdisk that knows about the new location of the root
filesystem, run the command mkinitrd.
1 Start the VM Guest with the extra root= command line as explained above.
2 Log into the system as user root.
3 Edit the file /etc/fstab and correct all device entries.
4 Edit the virtual machine's /boot/grub/menu.lst file. At the kernel line,
5 Reboot the virtual machine.
3.7 Troubleshooting
In some circumstances, problems may occur during the installation of the VM Guest.
This section describes some known problems and their solutions.
During boot, the system hangs
The software I/O translation buffer allocates a large chunk of low memory early
in the bootstrap process. If the requests for memory exceed the size of the buffer
it usually results in a hung boot process. To check if this is the case, switch to
console 10 and check the output there for a message similar to
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Virtualization with Xen
fix the root= and the resume= parameters according the new naming schema.
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