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Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] XEN unstable.hg on Itanium2 hangs problem

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Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] XEN unstable.hg on Itanium2 hangs problem
From: Dietmar Hahn <dietmar.hahn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 15:50:00 +0200
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Am Donnerstag, 24. Mai 2007 schrieb Radek Antoniuk:
> Dietmar Hahn napisał(a):
> > Am Donnerstag, 24. Mai 2007 schrieb Radek Antoniuk:
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> I've got xen from http://xenbits.xensource.com/ext/xen-ia64-unstable.hg
> >> , compiled everything and..
> >> the problem is that no matter if I do a PAE kernel or non-PAE, the
> >> result is after decompressing kernel, the screen goes black, the cursor
> >> flashes on the screen left-bottom, and it hangs.
> >> Anybody had similar issue?
> >> I've tried to modify kernel a bit, running a dom0 only, or dom0+domU
> >> kernel, no results.
> >> Configuration:
> >> Intel IA-64 Itanium 2
> >> 4GB RAM
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> Greets,
> >> Radek
> >
> > Hi Radek,
> >
> > I don't understand what you mean with PAE on ia64, but maybe you didn't
> > use the extented elilo to start the hypervisor and later linux + initrd.
> > Please see an earlier mail on the list discussing a similar problem.
> > http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-ia64-devel/2007-02/msg00264.
> >html
> >Feel free to ask further questions! 
>
> Hello,
> I think I've done that.
> Check this out.
> ## elilo -v
> Loaded efivars kernel module to enable use of efibootmgr
> elilo: Checking filesystem on /dev/sda1...
> elilo: Mounting /dev/sda1...
> elilo: 21740KB needed, 72164KB free, 20718KB to reuse
> elilo: Installing primary bootstrap /usr/lib/elilo/elilo.efi onto
> /dev/sda1...
> elilo: Installing /etc/elilo.conf on /dev/sda1...
> elilo: Installing /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-mckinley on /dev/sda1...
> elilo: Installing /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-xen on /dev/sda1...
> elilo: Installing /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-mckinley on /dev/sda1...
> elilo: Installing /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-xen on /dev/sda1...
> elilo: Installing /boot/xen.gz on /dev/sda1...
> elilo: Installation complete.
>
>
> This is debian unstable.
>
> Thanks,
> Radek

I'am not sure about debian, I only use SLES (SuSE)!
The standard SuSE distribution doesn't install the extended elilo.efi binary.
I had to compile and install it myself.
The other thing are the right parameters to set up the serial console, where 
you can see all the XEN (hypervisor) messages.
Can you send your elilo.conf file!

Dietmar.

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