Re: XCI: can we get to the demo state?

[Vincent Hanquez <vincent.hanquez@eu.citrix.com>]

Tim Moore wrote:
> Hi Vincent,
>
> I have not had a success with the 2.6.27 XCI kernel due to a number of issues (I think with support for my hardware).
>
> Intel Core i7 920 on Intel DX58SO (latest Intel BIOS)
>
> Success with build.git after the dev team fixed..
>
> XCI Kernel fails to boot: 2 reasons
>
> Randomly stops and freezes after initialising the 1st core on the processor (keyboard lockup / total machine lockup) have to hard reset to try again...
>
> If it passes this point, kernel then continues to load all processor cores, and upto SATA controller (AHCI Mode). The driver loads the disk sd(..) and then the system reboots - no messages - I think just before initrc is started.
>
> I have no RS232 on this board, so am waiting for a 1394 adapter for laptop before I can debug further... 
>
> Any pointers to getting further would help; I can't even get the point of trying pass-through for vga!
>   
are you able to boot with normal xen-unstable and the 2.6.27 ?

Did you try to tweak acpi or smp in your dom0 (or xen) command line ?
you can try to set nosmp, acpi=0, maxcpus=1 to see if it helps (see xen 
documentation for the xen equivalents).

-- 
Vincent