From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vincent Hanquez Subject: Re: XCI: can we get to the demo state? Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:46:31 +0100 Message-ID: <4A81A067.90805@eu.citrix.com> References: <44063.3697.qm@web82302.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <4A801E65.9000402@eu.citrix.com> <14D9C9E2ED61ED41BC3B37ACDF4E880002CE4F3F9CDB@heavy-vm03.heavy.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <14D9C9E2ED61ED41BC3B37ACDF4E880002CE4F3F9CDB@heavy-vm03.heavy.org.uk> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Tim Moore Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , Phung Te Ha List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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