Re: dom0 won't boot

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

On Thursday 29 July 2004 06:05 pm, Steven Hand wrote:
> >Can I assume from the above that it had located the kernel and loaded it?
>
> What's your [xen]linux command line? 

I'm using

title Xen
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/xen.gz dom0_mem=131072 com1=115200 noht noreboot
module (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.26-xen0 root=/dev/sda5 ro

and 

title linux-smp
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz-smp root=/dev/sda5 devfs=mount acpi=ht 
resume=/dev/sda1 max_loop=128
initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd-smp.img

The Xen command line is exactly what was working two days ago, except that 
(hd0,4) was (hd0,0) and /dev/sda5 was /dev/sda1.  (This was cut & pasted from 
my notes, so the chance of a typo in, say, com1 is reduced -- not eliminated, 
of course.  At this point I'm looking for 1/l O/0 sillies that could have 
crept in, but haven't found anything yet.)

the linux-smp works fine, of course.

> You're not getting any start of 
> day messages from dom0 which may mean that the console is set up
> incorrectly. The less likely alternative is that something is going wrong
> (and taking a long time to do so) before the first message that should be
> output from dom0...
>
> >> 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"?
>
> "repo" is short for the bk repository which you're using; if you're using
> a fresh clone you're probably up to date. The above comment was just
> stressing that it's important that the xen and xenlinux images are in
> sync (built from the same version), particularly with unstable.
>
Good to know.

> cheers,
>
> S.

Thanks,

Barry



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