Xen on Ubuntu: DomU hangs on boot

[Markus Schönhaber]

Allen Fowler wrote:

>> Add
>> extra = 'xencons=tty'
>> to the config file for your DomU. I. e. make it look similar to
> 
> Wow.  That did something.
> 
> Now the process gets a bit further. I wind up with somesort of an "initramfs" prompt.
> 
> Here is the "xm console" log...
[...]
> Begin: Waiting for root file system... ...
> 
> [...STOPS FOR A FEW MINUTES......]
> [... THEN...]
> 
> Done.
> /dev/hda1: unknown volume type

WAG: The image file you use for hda1 might be somehow corrupt. Try to
loop-mount it and see what happens.

Regards
  mks