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Re: [Xen-users] help boot ing xen

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] help boot ing xen
From: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:26:03 +0100
Cc: Derrik Pates <demon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jacek Aviles <ja754@xxxxxxx>
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> The lack of console output isn't related to the TLS/NPTL message at all.

Absolutely.

> That's due to the fact that the root filesystem has no device nodes when
> the kernel mounts it (particularly, no /dev/console). You either need to
> use an existing initrd, or use mkinitrd against the dom0 kernel and use
> that initrd, so that there will be a /dev/console and friends to open.

I'm surprised it just sits there and blinks though...  I'd expect it to gripe 
more about not having an initial console.

Try using the vanilla Fedora initrd and see if that fixes things.

Cheers,
Mark

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