Re: 2.6.16 Guest Hangs on Boot

Alexander Graf
2010-09-15T17:51:54Z

On 15.09.2010, at 19:48, Alec Joseph Rivera wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 19:28 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> On 15.09.2010, at 18:53, Alec Joseph Rivera wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all:
>>>
>>> I'm Alec Joseph Rivera, from the Philippines and new on this list.
>>> Anyway, I'm trying to run Lotus Foundations on kvm and it just hangs on
>>> bootup. It stops right after:
>>>
>>> Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor
>>> mode... Ok.
>>>
>>> There's no more output after that. My invocation line is:
>>>
>>> $ qemu-kvm -cpu host -m 1G -cdrom lfs.iso
>>
>> Your host is probably too new for this old guest. -cpu host directly passes through this host cpu's identifiers on which the guest might choke. Please try again without -cpu.
>>
>>
>
> Tried without -cpu, still hangs after the WP bit checking...
>
> $ qemu-kvm -m 1G -cdrom lfs.iso
>
> I was scanning the changelogs and read something about a
> -no-kernel-irqchip. The man page doesn't say anything about it but will
> try this one too..

Please try:

$ qemu-kvm -m 1G -cdrom lfs.iso -serial stdio

Then when it shows the bootloader, add "console=ttyS0" to the kernel command line. That should give all the debugging output necessary.

Alex