From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Derrik Pates <demon@devrandom.net>
Subject: Re: Xen not booting on debian
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 11:44:38 -0500
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Andrew Brampton wrote:
> title Xen 2.0 / XenLinux 2.6.10

Shouldn't you have a "root (hdX,Y)" here?

> kernel /boot/xen.gz dom0_mem=131072
>  module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-xen0 root=/dev/hda1 ro console=tty0
> #  initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-1-386

As pointed out in the directions, you need to load an initrd after the 
XenLinux kernel with a 'module' directive, instead of an 'initrd' directive.

> Xen 2.0 appears on the boot menu, but when it attempts to boot it just 
> hangs after displaying:
>  Booting 'Xen 2.0 / XenLinux 2.6.10'
> 
> kernel /boot/xen.gz dom0_mem=131072
>   [Multiboot-elf, <0x100000:0x4103c:0x3630c>, shtab=0x178078, 
> entry=0x100000]
> module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-xen0 root=/dev/hda1 ro console=tty0
>   [Multiboot-module @ 0x179000, 0x408178 bytes]
> boot

The only thing I can come up with is that either (a) it doesn't like 
your hardware, or (b) it's picking up the serial port as a serial 
console (I've never seen it do that, and I didn't think the hypervisor 
would auto-pickup a serial port...); what kind of hardware are you 
booting it on? (Processor type, chipset type, amount of memory, etc.)

-- 
Derrik Pates
demon@devrandom.net


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