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From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.16 Guest Hangs on Boot
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:18:38 +0200
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Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	Meric Mara <mmara@8layertech.com>,
	Renan Mara <rmara@8layertech.com>
To: Alec Joseph Rivera <eijhei@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 07:13:03PM +0800, Alec Joseph Rivera wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 12:14 +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 06:11:36PM +0800, Alec Joseph Rivera wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 16:03 +0800, Alec Joseph Rivera wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > No vmlinux/z image found on cd or an installed system :-(
> > > 
> > > 
> > It may be hidden somewhere in debug rpm.
> > 
> 
> Sadly, Lotus Foundations doesn't supply the debug rpms :-(
> 
Looks like Alexander already found relevant rpm.

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			Gleb.