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Re: [Xen-devel] Problems booting on a Dual-Xeon with 2.4 and 2.6 kernels

To: sven.kretzschmar@xxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Problems booting on a Dual-Xeon with 2.4 and 2.6 kernels
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 00:07:23 +0100
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> Then during boot of the 2.6 kernel I got the following message during boot:
> 
> fixmap and kmap areas overlap - this will crash
> pkstart: ff800000h pkend: ffc00000h fixstart fbeec000h
> ...
> kernel BUG at arch/xen/i386/mm/init.c:583!
> invalid operand: 0000 [#1]
> ...
> <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idel task!
> In idle task - not syncing

This is due to CONFIG_HIGHMEM currently being broken in our Linux 2.6
port. I guess fixing it won't be very hard.

> During boot, the boot process of the newly installed kernel
> showed that it recognizes the two 3ware Controlers, but then reports the 
> following errors:
> 3w-xxxx: scsi0: Unit #0: Command(c7f92b00) timed out, resetting card.
> 3w-xxxx: scsi0: Unit #0: Command(c7f92b00) timed out, resetting card.
> 3w-xxxx: scsi0: Reset succeeded.
> 
> Then it freezes and nothing more happens.
> I don't know if the boot process would have continued without the 3ware
> drivers, because I have no non-raid disks in this machine...

I'll have a look at the driver. Maybe it's communicating with the
controller in a strange way.

 -- Keir


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