[Xen-devel] Booting Xen on IA64 (for Dan Magenheimer)

["Philippe Berthault" <Philippe.Berthault@xxxxxxxx>]

Dan,

 

I have tried to boot Xen on my old Lion system, with your xen.good

and xenlinux.good downloaded from ftp://ftp.hpl.hp.com/pub/xen-ia64

 

The symptom is the same as with xen and Linux I have compiled myself:

    Loading xen.good... Loading Linux... ..done
    Loading initrd xenlinux.good... done

At this point, the system is stopped.

There is no activity on disks and no activity on CPUs.

I have tried several configurations, with and without serial console,

and the symptom is always the same.

 

Questions:

1) How is it possible to progress at this point ?

 

2) I haven't understand your answer about "initrd" ?

I have seen that Havard also uses the "initrd" directive, with success.

 

> Also, I've never seen the initrd message before from Xen/ia64. Elilo loads xenlinux as
> the initrd so xenlinux (currently) can't support modules. Perhaps your elilo.conf
> needs to be changed?

 

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Here, my "elilo.conf" file :

 

    prompt
    timeout=50
    default=linux

 

    image=vmlinuz-2.4.21-21.EL
        label=linux
        description="RH EL-AS3 standard (default)"
        initrd=initrd-2.4.21-21.EL.img
        read-only
        append="root=LABEL=/"

 

    image=xen
        label=xen
        description="Xen 2.6.7 and Linux kernel 2.6.9"
        initrd=vmlinuz-2.6.9
        read-only
        append="nomca console=tty0 root=LABEL=/"

 

    image=xen.good
        label=xenhp
        description="xen.good & xenlinux.good binaries from HP"
        initrd=xenlinux.good
        read-only
        append="nomca console=tty0 root=LABEL=/"

Thanks,

Philippe.