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RE: [Xen-users] FC 9 xen kernel does not boot

-----Original Message-----
From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Todd Deshane
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 22:51
To: xen-users
Subject: [Xen-users] FC 9 xen kernel does not boot

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Eredicator X
<eredicatorx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am trying to boot the fedora core 9 xen
kernel(2.6.25.3-2.fc9.x86_64.xen). Cause it is one of 2 that when I boot it
sees all 4GB of my memory.
>
> When I try to boot the xen kernel from grub, it boots it up and then the
last message is "Xen relinquishing VGA console". Then the next kernel
2.6.25.11-97.fc9.x86_64 is booted.
>
> Here is my grub.conf for the xen kernel.
>
> title Fedora (2.6.25.3-2.fc9.x86_64.xen)
>        root (hd0,0)
>        kernel /xen.gz-2.6.25.3-2.fc9.x86_64.xen
>        module /vmlinuz-2.6.25.3-2.fc9.x86_64.xen ro
root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
>        module /initrd-2.6.25.3-2.fc9.x86_64.xen.img
>
> I do not see any issues with grub and since the kernel has not started
there is no logging of what went wrong where.
>
> Is there a way I can fire up this kernel to see where the problems are and
try to correct them? I am not so skilled with kernel level things. Also is
it possible I will need to rebuild my own kernel for my particular
motherboard.
>
> Software; FC-9 with xen
> Hardware; AMD_64 Phenom
>          GA-MA770-S3 MB
>          RV505 [Radeon X1550 Series]
>          4GB of DIMM 800MHZ RAM
>          3x 500GB SATA WD HD
>
>
>
> My goal with this box is, build a entire virtual environment, 2 clustered
web servers, 2 clustered mail servers, 2 clustered FTP servers, and back end
storage using ISCSI or some other open nas system. The creation of my own
private sand box.
>
> I have been screwing around with diffrent Linux distros to find one I was
comfortable with as a base system. I would like to use cent 5.1 but xen
would not boot on my hardware and it did not see all 4 gigs of ram. 2
problems as opposed to 1 in FC9.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>

Fedora 9 doesn't have a dom0 kernel.

See:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2008-August/msg00009.html


Did you try centos 5.2?


Cheers,
Todd

--
Todd Deshane
http://todddeshane.net
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You might also see this:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2007-October/msg00037.html
        I don't know if it is related to your memory issue, but I have had
(and fixed) this problem with F7, F8, and CentOS 5.1.  I'm not sure you are
experiencing the same issue because I think it was usually only with the xen
kernel in my case, but it might be worth a try so you can use CentOS, and I
wouldn't be surprised if 5.2 has the same issue.  I'm running F8 because
CentOS 5.2 didn't have drivers for my NIC.
        Dustin



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