From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Subject: Re: xen-unstable HV fails to boot on AMD quad core Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:15:40 +0100 Message-ID: <20071019161540.GF8638@redhat.com> References: <20071019155106.GD8638@redhat.com> Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Keir Fraser Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 05:12:04PM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote: > On 19/10/07 16:51, "Daniel P. Berrange" wrote: > > > I don't know if I'm using SVGA console support. This is basically a 100% > > clean checkout of xen-unstable.hg and I just did 'make' in the 'xen' > > directory without changing any build config options, and I've not given any > > special boot parameters to the HV. So if SVGA stuff is enabled by default, > > then I'm using it.... Is there a grub boot option I can use to disable > > it ? > > No it's not enabled by default. So the 10s delay is rather weird! Is this a > property of any version of Xen on this machine (e.g., 3.1.0, 3.1.1)? Or is > it a new property of recent xen-unstable? 3.1.0 works without any issue. The 3.1.1 rc's did too, though I've not tested the final release. Will do some builds to try & find where it came in... I'm also going to update some other machines to xen-unstable > > Unfortunately this box is one of the 'nice' new legacy free machines > > and thus no serial :-( > > Oh dear. :-( For that kind of machine I tend to stick in a PCI serial card, > work out its BIOS-assigned resources, and then manually specify the I/O > ports and IRQ on the Xen command line. Working with no serial at all is way > too painful. Yes, its seriously painful. Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|