From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Samuel Thibault Subject: Re: PV Grub Questions Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:45:05 +0100 Message-ID: <20080826234505.GF4569@implementation> References: <1e16a9ed0808261257p763cb14uc6a3b28513cf94d2@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1e16a9ed0808261257p763cb14uc6a3b28513cf94d2@mail.gmail.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Todd Deshane Cc: xen-devel mailing list List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Hello, Todd Deshane, le Tue 26 Aug 2008 15:57:50 -0400, a =E9crit : > a) > root (hd0,1) > setup (hd0) > boot (or quit) >=20 > In this case however setup and quit are unknown commands. > Is that expected? Yes. The MBR of a partition is supposed to contain a real bootloader, not a PV bootloader, thus the setup command doesn't hold. quit only makes sense when running from a Unix shell, so doesn't make sense here, reboot or halt can be used instead. > b) > kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-xen > initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.18.8-xen > boot >=20 > In this case, I get > Page fault in pagetable walk (access to invalid memory?). Should work :/ Could you send me your images so I can test? > It starts booting the kernel, but gets stuck during the boot process at= : >=20 > rtc: IRQ 8 is not free. > Non-volatile memory driver v1.2 > RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize > loop: loaded (max 8 devices) > Xen virtual console successfully installed as xvc0 > Event-channel device installed. > netfront: Initialising virtual ethernet driver. > xen-vbd: registered block device major 3 > hda: Is there any message in dom0's dmesg or xm dmesg? Samuel