Re: [bug] pv-grub doesn't run on rhel5

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@eu.citrix.com>]

Gerd Hoffmann, le Thu 14 Aug 2008 12:38:15 +0200, a écrit :
> Trying to boot pv-grub on RHEL-5 makes it fail with
> 
>   [ ... ]
>   gnttab_table mapped at 0x10001000.
>   Initialising scheduler
>   (XEN) mm.c:694:d6 Bad L3 flags 6
>   ERROR: mmu_update failed
>   Do_exit called!

It looks like it's mini-os itself that has troubles very early.

It works in my environment.

> Guess more recent xen versions are less picky here and just silenly
> fixup this?

No, the check is still there, and I wonder how flags 6 could make it to
L3 flags.  Could you send me your mini-os.gz image?

> This is with 32bit pae.

Is it a 64 bit or 32 bit hypervisor?  Which version of the hypervisor?

> Another issue:  As 64bit pv-grub can't boot 32bit kernels, the 64bit xen
> build should create both 32bit and 64bit builds of pv-grub, so you can
> boot 32-on-64 guests with it?

I'm afraid Keir will consider it is too late in the 3.3 release to make
such a change in the build process.

Actually I am currently working on how we could switch a PV domain
between 32 and 64.  That won't ever go into 3.3 either, however.

Samuel