Hi,

where does you root-device reside on?
Do you use sda or hda?

Can you post your DomU-config (without comments) here?

What messages do you get before LVM complains?
It might be that you don't have the rigth drivers in your DomU-initrd
(any more)...

Kind regards,

Nils 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-virt-boun...@centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-virt-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Devraj Mukherjee
> Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 4:47 AM
> To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS
> Subject: [CentOS-virt] Domain0 with Kernel 
> 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5xen fails toboot Guests with Kernel 
> 2.6.18-164.el5xen
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am in a bit of a fix here, I have several Guests 
> paravirtualized running on a Dom0 that is currently running 
> the 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5xen Kernel. All my guests (administered 
> by different people) have subsequently been updated to later 
> versions of the kernel (namely 2.6.18-164.el5xen or 
> 2.6.18-128.4.1.el5xen).
> 
> Ones that are still running are using the Kernel 
> 2.6.18-128.4.1.el5xen while Dom0 is still booted up into 
> 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5xen
> 
> I restarted a Guest that's now trying to boot with the 
> 2.6.18-164.el5xen Kernel and it spits out messages like
> XENBUS: Waiting for devices to initialise: 295s...290s...
> 
> and eventually reboots.
> 
> If I try and interrupt the boot and choose a previous version 
> of the Kernel on the Guest, it says the following and fails 
> to boot. The guests use a single disk image that has the SWAP 
> and Root partitions.
> 
> Is this happening because the version of the kernel on the 
> Dom0 is way too old for guests to boot? I am just a bit 
> hesitant in rebooting my server for the new kernel to take 
> effect unless I am sure :)
> 
> device-mapper: dm-raid45: initialized v0.2429 Scanning and 
> configuring dmraid supported devices Scanning logical volumes
>   Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
> Activating logical volumes
>   Volume group "VolGroup00" not found
> Creating root device.
> Mounting root filesystem.
> mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
> Setting up other filesystems.
> Setting up new root fs
> setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory no 
> fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults
> setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory
> setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory 
> Switching to new root and running init.
> unmounting old /dev
> unmounting old /proc
> unmounting old /sys
> switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory Kernel 
> panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
> 
> 
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