From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Marc - A. Dahlhaus" Subject: Re: testing 32bit PAE pv_ops dom0... Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:05:17 +0100 Message-ID: <4968FF7D.3050703@wol.de> References: <4968DED7.2080208@wol.de> <20090110191743.GT15052@edu.joroinen.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090110191743.GT15052@edu.joroinen.fi> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Pasi_K=E4rkk=E4inen?= Cc: xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Pasi K=E4rkk=E4inen schrieb: > On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 06:45:59PM +0100, Marc - A. Dahlhaus wrote: > =20 >> Hello, >> >> i had no luck in booting 32bit PAE pv_ops dom0 on xen-3.4-unstable so = far... >> Booting the bzImage on bare Metal works like a charm (it's even stable= =20 >> under high load), but booting the vmlinux over xen gives just a jump o= f=20 >> the cursor to the top left corner after the last messages from the=20 >> hypervisor. My Test-Box (Dell XPS-720) lacks a serial port so i can't=20 >> check if it's just a vga issue. >> >> I have most xen related options configured as modules maybe that might= =20 >> be the problem. I'll try to check that out over the next week. >> >> Next thing i'll try is to use xen-3.3.1 hypervisor to check that it's=20 >> not hypervisor related. >> I also try to dig out some older Boxes on which 3.3.1 runs at the mome= nt=20 >> and try if it actually prints something to a serial console... >> >> =20 > > VGA console is not currently working in pv_ops dom0 patches. At least I > haven't figured out how to make it work. > > Serial console works for me.=20 > > There seems to be some problems with IRQ routing (?).. and thus ahci an= d ata_piix > drivers don't seem to work currently.=20 > > Hopefully next week we can get some debugging done when Jeremy is back. > > -- Pasi > =20 Hello Pasi, followed the discussions about that and was sad to read that as my boxes=20 here also use the ata_piix module to get the root device. I'll try to build a x86_64 image tomorrow as is=20 think it's a PAE problem. Can you send me your working kernel config file? I also got another hickup here. On 3 other Boxes i tested on i get an=20 instant reboot after the dom0 builder executes the pv_ops vmlinuz image... i think it panics pretty close after=20 execution on 32bit PAE... I have to dig out a serial cable to put some boxes together to capture=20 some logs. I'll post them when i get there.