Re: Re: Where to get FreeBSD port for Xen

[Derrik Pates <demon@devrandom.net>]

Kip:

> It only has the kernel, a compressed mdroot, and the config scripts
> that I use. The blocking issue discussed previously has not been fixed.
> I intend to fix it, but there are some infrastructure bits that take
> priority for me.
> 
> Let me know how this works for you as soon as you try it out.

Bad news, I'm afraid; the 5.3 kernel and mdroot doesn't successfully 
boot for me. I'm using the same args that happily boot the 5.2.1 kernel, 
but it simply stops once it reaches a certain point. The boot messages 
are as follows:

--- start boot messages ---
WARNING: loader(8) metadata is missing!
start_info 0xc0295000
start_info->nr_pages 32768
Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
         The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #31: Thu Jan 20 11:37:43 PST 2005
 
mowat@bldf1.eng.netapp.com:/t/niners/users/xen/bsd/sys-5.3/i386-xeno.tot/compile/XENCONF
WARNING: DIAGNOSTIC option enabled, expect reduced performance.
Timecounter "ixen" frequency 1593088000 Hz quality 0
CPU: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 242 (1593.09-MHz 686-class CPU)
   Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0xf58  Stepping = 8
 
Features=0x78bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2>
   AMD Features=0xe0500000<NX,AMIE,LM,DSP,3DNow!>
Data TLB: 32 entries, fully associative
Instruction TLB: 32 entries, fully associative
L1 data cache: 64 kbytes, 64 bytes/line, 1 lines/tag, 2-way associative
L1 instruction cache: 64 kbytes, 64 bytes/line, 1 lines/tag, 2-way 
associative
L2 internal cache: 1024 kbytes, 64 bytes/line, 1 lines/tag, 8-way 
associative
real memory  = 131354624 (125 MB)
Physical memory chunk(s):
0x00000000002bb000 - 0x0000000007aecfff, 126033920 bytes (30770 pages)
avail memory = 125120512 (119 MB)
WARNING: driver "evtchn" used unreserved major device number 140
null: <null device, zero device>
random: <entropy source, Software, Yarrow>
cpu0 on motherboard
Device configuration finished.
procfs registered
Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
xc0: <Xen Console> on motherboard
WARNING: driver "xc" used unreserved major device number 12
xn0: bpf attached
xn0: Ethernet address: aa:00:00:00:00:28
--- end boot messages ---

At that point, it just doesn't go any further; 'xm list' shows it as in 
run state, not crashed, but it just never goes any further. Any thoughts?

-- 
Derrik Pates
demon@devrandom.net


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