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RE: [Xen-users] Debian 6 as Dom0 not booting on Xen 4.1.1

Hello,

If you are using Debian 6 you could try the vmlinuz-3.0.0-1-rt-amd64
kernel which seems to work very well on my system.
I think it is worth a try.

Regards

JPPO







> Hello Ian,
> 
> 
> I have managed to solved every problem described bellow. This was by
> recompiling the kernel, but this time with the
> same 2.6.32-5 Debian Squeeze kernel configuration. The one I am
> working on is 3.0.0 from Debian.org and the boot
> process is slow but normal.
> 
> 
> Now at the time of booting kernel 3.0.0 + Dom0 it hangs at:
> [ Configuring network interfaces... ]
> And it never goes on. I have commented lines of static IP address
> in /etc/network/interfaces
> 
> 
> Only left uncommented these ones:
> 
> 
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
> 
> 
> But still the same issue.
> Has this something to do with Xen? Or should I edit another file?
> 
> 
> Thank you!
> Tony.
> 
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Debian 6 as Dom0 not booting on Xen 4.1.1
> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:29:36 +0100
> From: itobin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: dftonywhite@xxxxxxxxxxx; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> CC: 
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> What kernel as you running?
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks
> 
>  
> 
> Ian
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> From: Antonio Colin [mailto:dftonywhite@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 25 September 2011 23:01
> To: Ian Tobin; Xen Users List
> Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Debian 6 as Dom0 not booting on Xen 4.1.1
> 
> 
>  
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Sorry for the late reply but I was doing some testing on recompiling
> the kernel from scratch.
> Actually I have get rid of the previously described errors. This was
> by activating again the same
> two features of DEVTMPFS. Now I honestly am consused when starting
> Dom0 kernel + Xen 
> it stops at: Loading, please wait... (never continuing in black
> screen)
> 
> Later booting on - linux + xen + (recovery mode) -, it stops at:
> 
> Loading, please wait... 
> udev [966]: starting version 164
> hrtimer: interrupt took 2701681 ns
> 
> I've found this is a bug in some VMs
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/3/30/719
> But the patch doesn't fix anything it just delays what is unavoidable.
> 
> It actually detects the disk controllers because dmesg and lspci
> report they are working well when
> booting linux 3.0.0 alone. I have also installed new version of UDEV..
> 172-1 but later downgraded
> to 164-3 since it is unstable and triggered more issues.
> 
> I think there could be an option in the kernel config I should either
> activate or deactivate which can
> be related to this.
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Tony.
> 
>                                    
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Debian 6 as Dom0 not booting on Xen 4.1.1
> From: itobin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 13:53:17 +0100
> To: dftonywhite@xxxxxxxxxxx
> CC: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Hi, 
> 
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> Could it be it's not detecting your disk controllers?
> 
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> What are you using?
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> Thanks
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
> Ian
> 
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> On 24 Sep 2011, at 08:48, "Antonio Colin" <dftonywhite@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> 
>         Hello Ian,
>         
>         Thanks for your replay! I have just done the same things you
>         did and nothing changed.
>         After booting Xen the same error appears. 
>         
>         I dare to think it is something related either to a .deb
>         package missing or a kernel config
>         option I missed. But what would they be if those can be my
>         mistakes?
>         
>         Thank you
>         
>         Tony.
>         
>                                        
>         ______________________________________________________________
>         Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Debian 6 as Dom0 not booting on Xen
>         4.1.1
>         Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 23:43:13 +0100
>         From: itobin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>         To: dftonywhite@xxxxxxxxxxx; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>         CC: 
>         
>         Hi,
>         
>          
>         
>         I had this and couldn’t figure out what is was.  In the end I
>         removed the modules from /lib/modules and the kernel files
>         in /boot then reinstalled and made the new initrd.  Worked
>         after.
>         
>          
>         
>         Thanks
>         
>          
>         
>         Ian
>         
>          
>         
>          
>         
>         From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>         [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
>         Antonio Colin
>         Sent: 23 September 2011 23:07
>         To: Xen Users List
>         Subject: [Xen-users] Debian 6 as Dom0 not booting on Xen 4.1.1
>         
>         
>          
>         
>         Hi everyone,
>         
>         I have compiled and installed Linux 3.0.0 and Xen 4.1.1 on
>         Debian Squeeze, both from source and enabling this two
>         options:
>         
>         CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y
>         CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y
>         
>         The problem arises when booting Xen. After its startup, it
>         seems that it cannot correctly load Dom0 devices since it
>         says:
>         
>         Loading, please wait...
>         Mount: mounting none on /dev failed: No such device
>         w: devtmpfs not available, falling back to tmpfs for /dev
>         udevd[972]: Worker [978] unexpectedly returned with status
>         0x0100
>         
>         Anyone has an idea of what I am doing wrong? Does it need any
>         package or do I need to rebuild initramfs?
>         
>         Thank you in advance,
>         Tony.
>         
>         
>         
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