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[Xen-users] Booting past GRUB (RHEL4)

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Subject: [Xen-users] Booting past GRUB (RHEL4)
From: Yoav Felberbaum <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 12:20:31 +0100
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Hello,

Running a fairly stock RHEL4.4 (previously RHEL4.3) system on an dual Opteron system, & having issues booting Xen. In a nutshell, it simply halts shortly after going thru GRUB, and then automatically reboots. Last output is...

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Booting 'Xen 3.0 / XenLinux 2.6'

root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /xen-3.0.gz dom0_mem=192M
[Multiboot-elf, <0x1000000:0x87508:0x35af8>, shtab=0x1bd078, entry=0x10000.... (line cut off) module /vmlinuz-2.6-xen ro root=LABEL=/ console=tty0 console=ttyS1,19200n8
[Multiboot-module @ 0x1be000, 0x5f18e8 byes]
module /initrd-2.6-xen.img
[Multiboot-module @ 0x7b0000, 0x20a800 bytes]
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grub.conf is...
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# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda3
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default 1
timeout=80
#splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
serial --unit=1 --speed=19200
terminal --timeout=80 console serial
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (2.6.9-42.0.2.EL)
        root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL ro root=LABEL=/ console=tty0 console=ttyS1,19200n8
        initrd /initrd-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL.img
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp)
        root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp ro root=LABEL=/ console=tty0 console=ttyS1,19200n8
        initrd /initrd-2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp.img
title Xen 3.0 / XenLinux 2.6
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /xen-3.0.gz dom0_mem=192M
module /vmlinuz-2.6-xen ro root=LABEL=/ console=tty0 console=ttyS1,19200n8
        module /initrd-2.6-xen.img
#title OpenVZ Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (2.6.8-022stab078.14-smp)
#       root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-022stab078.14-smp ro root=LABEL=/ console=tty0 console=ttyS1,19200n8
#       initrd /initrd-2.6.8-022stab078.14-smp.img
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (2.6.9-34.ELsmp)
        root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-34.ELsmp ro root=LABEL=/ console=tty0 console=ttyS1,19200n8
        initrd /initrd-2.6.9-34.ELsmp.img
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES-up (2.6.9-34.EL)
        root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-34.EL ro root=LABEL=/ console=tty0 console=ttyS1,19200n8
        initrd /initrd-2.6.9-34.EL.img
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Listing of /boot...
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config-2.6.16.13-xen message vmlinuz-2.6.16-xen3_86.1_rhel4.1 config-2.6.16-xen message.ja vmlinuz-2.6.8-022stab078.14-smp config-2.6.16-xen3_86.1_rhel4.1 System.map-2.6.16.13- xen vmlinuz-2.6.9-34.EL config-2.6.9-34.EL System.map-2.6.16- xen vmlinuz-2.6.9-34.ELsmp config-2.6.9-34.ELsmp System.map-2.6.16- xen3_86.1_rhel4.1 vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL config-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL System.map-2.6.8-022stab078.14- smp vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp config-2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp System.map-2.6.9-34.EL vmlinuz-2.6-xen grub System.map-2.6.9-34.ELsmp xen-3.0.2-2.gz initrd-2.6.16-xen3_86.1_rhel4.1.img System.map-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL xen-3.0.2-3.gz initrd-2.6.8-022stab078.14-smp.img System.map-2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp xen-3.0.2.gz initrd-2.6.9-34.EL.img vmlinux-2.6.8-022stab078.14- smp xen-3.0.gz initrd-2.6.9-34.ELsmp.img vmlinux-syms-2.6.16.13- xen xen-3.gz initrd-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL.img vmlinux-syms-2.6.16- xen xen.gz initrd-2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp.img vmlinux-syms-2.6.16- xen3_86.1_rhel4.1 xen-syms-3.0.2 initrd-2.6-xen.img vmlinuz-2.6.16.13- xen xen-syms-3.0.2-2 lost+found vmlinuz-2.6.16- xen xen-syms-3.0.2-3
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Let me know if you need any more information...

TIA!

Yoav

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