Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> Ooooh. Can you give some more details on the hardware flavor? CPU? Memory?
Its an AMD system on an ASUS M2A-VM mainboard with an Athlon 64 X2 CPU
and 8GB of memory.

> What happens if you use dom0_mem=max:512MB or pass in 'irqpoll' to the
> Linux kernel?
irqpoll does not change anything but the memory limit does the trick.
The system then boots fine, I attached the dmesg log.
Since the netconsole now also works, I assume some kind of IRQ problem
which is strengthened by the fact, that the keyboard didn't work either
(for scrolling and searching for problems) without the memory limit option.

> OK. I need the kernel boot log to figure out what might be a potential problem.
> Let's try to get your netconsole working or your serial console? Does this
> machine even have a serial port? Maybe you can use that to capture the kernel
> output?

I attached the bootlog with the 512 memory-limit enabled and the xen dmesg.

Unfortunately I have to drive 200km to install a serial cable to the
system. So if there is an IRQ problem would the serial console really
help or would it suffer from the same irq problem?