Re: dom0 won't boot

[Barry Rountree <rountree@cs.uga.edu>]

On Thursday 29 July 2004 05:26 pm, Ian Pratt wrote:

> > Now, after xen finished booting, the machine reboots.

> I'd be very surprised if this was a Xen issue rather than a
> configuration problem.

I agree -- but I'd run out of places to look.

Is booting to an xfs partition allowed?  Hmmm... based on what xen is 
reporting, it looks like it loaded the kernel ok...

>
> I suspect Xen boots fine, starts dom0, but then dom0 bails,
> probably because it can't mount root or such like.
>
> If you boot xen with the 'noreboot' cmdline option you'll get a
> chance to read why dom0 is exiting.

[Transcribed]
(XEN) *** LOADING DOMAIN 0 ***
(XEN) Xen-ELF header found: 
'GUEST_OS=linux,GUEST_VER=2.4,XEN_VER=1.3,VIRT_BASE=0xC0000000'
(XEN) PHYSICAL MEMORY ARRANGEMENT:
(XEN)  Kernel image:  02800000->02b0b8fc
(XEN)  Initrd image:  00000000->00000000
(XEN)  Dom0 alloc.:  02c00000->0ac00000
(XEN) VIRTUAL MEMORY ARRANGEMENT:
(XEN)  Loaded kernel: c0100000->c0458988
(XEN)  Init. ramdisk:  c0459000->c0459000
(XEN)  Phys-Mach map:  c0459000->c0479000
(XEN)  Page tables:  c0479000->c047c000
(XEN)  Start Info:  c047c000->c047d000
(XEN)  Boot stack:  c047d000->c047e000
(XEN)  TOTAL:  c00000000->c0800000
(XEN)  ENTRY ADDRESS:  c0100000
(XEN) *** Serial input -> DOM0 (type 'CTRL-a' three times to swith input to 
Xen).
[long pause.]
(XEN) Domain 0 shutdown: rebooting machine!
(XEN) Reboot disabled on cmdline: require manual reset

Can I assume from the above that it had located the kernel and loaded it?

>
> First, make sure your xen and vmlinuz-xen images are built from
> the same repo version.

This was a fresh bk clone on a new install -- what do you mean by "repo"?

>
> Best,
> Ian

Thanks

Barry

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