[Xen-devel] CPU hangs during installation to Shuttle XS35V4

[FuntooHacker <daddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 01:48:12 +0100
From: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: FuntooHacker <daddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: qubes-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [qubes-users] CPU hangs during installation to Shuttle XS35V4

On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 06:31:12PM -0600, FuntooHacker wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 10:05:49PM +0100, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> > 
> > Looks like Xen bug. Or EFI firmware bug (but less likely).
> > I'd start with checking it using newer Xen version. For example install
> > on USB stick on some other machine, install dom0 updates (this should
> > bring Xen 4.6.3) and then try to boot the system from USB on Shuttle
> > XS35V4. If you don't have another system to install Qubes on USB, try
> > replacing xen.efi on installation disk:
> > 
> > 1. Download updated xen-hypervisor package:
> > https://yum.qubes-os.org/r3.2/current/dom0/fc23/rpm/xen-hypervisor-4.6.3-24.fc23.x86_64.rpm
> > 
> > 2. Preferably verify its signature (rpm -K), but if you don't have rpm
> > (and Qubes 3 release signing key) handy, just check sha256 hash of the file 
> > -
> > should be:
> > 49061dff8fc9851e60eacef8818e492ce1665c0377b36b9b7190c0f2a5a0ece1
> > 
> > 3. Extract the package - rpmdev-extract tool is the most convenient way,
> > but if you don't have it installed, you can use rpm2cpio, then extract
> > cpio archive.
> > 
> > 4. Mount EFI partition of installation USB (the one with FAT filesystem)
> > 
> > 5. Replace EFI/BOOT/xen.efi with xen-4.6.3.efi extracted from
> > xen-hypervisor package.
> > 
> > 6. Unmount, try to boot.
> > 
> > If this all does not help, I'd recommend reporting to xen-devel mailing
> > list (xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) including the screenshot you've
> > send here. 
> 
> Done, and same result. Screenshot attached. Must one subscribe to xen-devel in
> order to send to the ML?

Not required.
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In trying to install Qubes to a Shuttle XS35V4 it hangs while booting. Marek
had me replace xen-hypervisor 4.6.1 with 4.6.3. Including screenshots of both
failures.

I'm not on the list.

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