Re: Latest Arndale Xen, dom0 kernel stuck on ASIX mac.

[Julien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org>]

On 06/01/2013 03:31 PM, Sander Bogaert wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I was trying to update my Xen version and noticed I needed to use a
> newer dom0 kernel too ( took the one from Julien's arndale branch ). I
> got both and compiled them but I can't get the new kernel to boot. It
> keeps getting stuck at ( attached the whole boot log too ):
> 
> asix 1-3.2.4:1.0 (unregistered net_device): invalid hw address, using random
> asix 1-3.2.4:1.0 eth0: register 'asix' at usb-12110000.usb-3.2.4, ASIX
> AX88772 USB 2.0 Ethernet, d2:a5:dc:ad:09:b5
> 
> I tried setting another mac address in u-boot as stated on the wiki,
> one starting with '00:16:3e:...' but without result.
> 
> So I was wondering if anyone ran into the same issue yet? The kernel
> getting stuck seemingly because of a mac address?


If you look at few lines before you can see:
Waiting for root device /dev/sda1...

It seems that linux is unable to start the hard drive. Unfortunately, I
never try this configuration with Xen.

Does Xen hang? You can try triple CTRL-a and see if Xen answers.
Is linux/xen receive the SATA interrupt?

> Also I noticed that even using saveenv u-boot isn't keeping my changes
> to ethaddr and usbethaddr after a reboot. I'm using U-Boot
> 2013.01.-rc1-00001-g30dd996 (Apr 29 2013 - 11:09:40) for ARNDALE5250
> which still seems to be the one the Linaro guide says to use. Is this
> a bug in u-boot?


I didn't try recent U-boot. FYI, I'm using U-boot 2012.10-rc1.

Cheers,

Julien