Re: 2.6.16 Guest Hangs on Boot

Alec Joseph Rivera
2010-09-16T08:04:01Z

On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 09:56 +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 03:52:17PM +0800, Alec Joseph Rivera wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 08:39 +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 09:55:38AM +0800, Alec Joseph Rivera wrote:
> > > > > That should give us a clue on what's going wrong.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > I did the steps you mentioned. Here's the gdb transcript:
> > > >
> > > > $ gdb k12_1009 -ex 'target remote localhost:1234'
> > > What is k12_1009? Are you sure this is vmlinux?
> > >
> >
> > Hi Gleb:
> >
> > Yes, k12_1009 is the kernel image that isolinux loads.
> >
> > -- isolinux.cfg
> >
> > > DEFAULT 1
> > > TIMEOUT 100
> > > PROMPT 1
> > > DISPLAY isolinux.txt
> > > LABEL 1
> > > KERNEL k12_1009
> > > APPEND ramdisk_size=32768 initrd=initrd root=/dev/ram
> > > LABEL 2
> > > KERNEL k12_1009
> > > APPEND ramdisk_size=32768 initrd=initrd root=/dev/ram BOOT_SUPPORT=1
> >
> > -- file test
> > > $ file k12_1009
> > > k12_1009: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage, version 2.6.16.54-0.2.5-bigsmp (geeko@b, RO-rootFS, root_dev 0x301, swap_dev 0x1, Normal VGA
> >
> This is bzImage, You need corresponding vmlinux bzImage was created
> from.

Oh I see. Thanks for pointing that out. Unfortunately, I don't think I
can get that image. Either I ask someone from Novell or IBM.

I'll try crawling the system's filesystem, maybe I can find it there...
Will keep you updated.

>
> > > BTW what version on kvm/qemu are you using.
> > >
> >
> > qemu's version is 0.12.5. modinfo kvm doesn't reveal any version string
> > though, however the kernel is 2.6.35 from Arch.
> >
> > Question: from what I've read so far kvm versions are of 'kvm-xx' where
> > xx is a number, on sourceforge there is kvm-kmod-{kernel-version}, am I
> > correct in assuming and saying then that my kvm version is 2.6.35?
> >
> kvm-xx is deprecated. So when asked what kvm are you using you should
> provide your kernel version like you did.
>
> --
> Gleb.

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