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Re: [Xen-devel] New kernel won't boot

To: "Gregory Newby" <newby@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] New kernel won't boot
From: Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 23:54:56 +0000
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> > Things are going wrong very early in the dom0 boot process.
> 
> If it would help, I can try to capture the earlier
> part of the process via serial console....but it's a bit
> of a hassle.

I don't think this is going to help -- Xen seems happy, its dom0
that's exploding.
  
> > Please could you go into xenolinux-2.4.22/kernel/printk.c and 
> > "#if 1" the HYPERVISOR_console_write in printk. hopefully this
> > will produce a bit more debug output before the xenolinux
> > explodes.
> 
> I will do this, but won't get to test it until tomorrow.  More:

Thanks. I think this is going to be revealing.
 
> When I use the image.gz and xenolinux.gz from the CD
> (copied to my /boot), the exact same outcome happens
>  -- a reboot after "DOM0: Guest OS virtual load address is c0000000"
> 
> However, I *can* boot directly from the CD with no problem.  I
> didn't experiment much, and never tried to get networking
> running, but it seemed like all the hardware was recognized.

Hmm, this is important. 

Please could you try booting with dom0_mem=100000 
I wander if there's something odd about the memory layout of
your machine.

What version of GRUB are you using? Could you install the one
from the CD?  I'm wandering whether it's failing to load the
module into memory correctly.


Thanks,
Ian


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