Re: domU guest for xcp 0.1.1

["Pasi Kärkkäinen" <pasik@iki.fi>]

On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 06:32:00PM -0700, Ritu kaur wrote:
>    Thanks Pasi. I had used following command to regenerate initrd image in
>    xcp ddk
> 
>    mkinitrd -f ./initrd-2.6.32.img  2.6.27.42-0.1.1.xs0.1.1.737.1065xen
> 

Uhm.. this is wrong.

If you want to generate initrd image for 2.6.32 kernel, then you need to do it like this:
mkinitrd initrd-2.6.32.img 2.6.32

>    it doesn't work either. While booting screen goes blank immediately after
>    I see
> 

Do you have "console=hvc0 earlyprintk=xen nomodeset" parameters for the pvops dom0 kernel? 

-- Pasi

>    ...
>     Booting:MBI=0x00010120, entry=0x00100000
> 
>    and next thing I see is BIOS setup, so not sure connecting serial cable
>    will reveal anything more. Inputs appreciated.
> 
>    Thanks
> 
>    On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <[1]pasik@iki.fi> wrote:
> 
>      On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 11:28:12AM -0700, Ritu kaur wrote:
>      >    Any inputs on this? I compiled xen/next kernel in Debian Lenny and
>      booted
>      >    successfully as a domU(I am using same .config file which I used to
>      build
>      >    under xcp-ddk). Looks to me xen/next doesn't work with xcp0.1.1.
>      >
> 
>      You need to re-generate the dom0 kernel initrd to match your kernel.
>      You cannot use the default xcp initrd image.
> 
>      Please provide the full serial console boot log so we can troubleshoot
>      it:
>      [2]http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenSerialConsole
> 
>      -- Pasi
> 
>      >    Thanks
>      >
>      >    On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Ritu kaur
>      <[1][3]ritu.kaur.us@[2][4]gmail.com>
>      >    wrote:
>      >
>      >      Hi Pasi,
>      >
>      >      Messages seen with not-working case
>      >
>      >
>       /***********************************************************************************
>      >      kernel:/boot/xen.3.4.3.gz dom0-mem=752M lowmem-emergency-pool=1M
>      >      crashkernel=64M@32M console=comX vga=mode-0x0311
>      >      loading /boot/xen.3.4.3.gz..........
>      >      Module:/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32 root=LABEL=root-mhycetek ro
>      Xencons=hvc
>      >      console=hvc0 console=tty0 quiet vga=785 splash
>      >      Loading /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32.........
>      >      Module:/boot/initrd-2.6-xen.img
>      >      Loading
>      >
>       /boot/initrd-2.6-xen.img...............................................................................................
>      >      Booting:MBI=0x00010120, entry=0x00100000
>      >
>       ***************************************************************************************/
>      >
>      >      Screen is blank after these messages and system returns to BIOS
>      setup.
>      >
>      >      Messages seen with working case
>      >
>       /***********************************************************************************
>      >      kernel:/boot/xen.gz dom0-mem=752M lowmem-emergency-pool=1M
>      >      crashkernel=64M@32M comsole=comX vga=mode-0x0311
>      >      loading /boot/xen.gz..........
>      >      Module:/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.xen root=LABEL=root-mhycetek ro
>      Xencons=hvc
>      >      console=hvc0 console=tty0 quiet vga=785 splash
>      >      Loading /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.xen.........
>      >      Module:/boot/initrd-2.6-xen.img
>      >      Loading
>      >
>       /boot/initrd-2.6-xen.img...............................................................................................
>      >      Booting:MBI=0x00010120, entry=0x00100000
>      >
>       ***************************************************************************************/
>      >
>      >      Versions used in Non-working case
>      >
>      >      xen - 3.4.3/4.0.0
>      >      kernel - xen/next
>      >      initrd - default one which came with xcp0.1.1 download.(Ps note,
>      in xcp
>      >      ddk cannot build initrd image)
>      >
>      >      in Working case
>      >
>      >      xen - 3.4.2
>      >      kernel - xcp 0.1.1
>      >      initrd - one that came with xcp 0.1.1
>      >
>      >      Checked in my .config and changed CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START to
>      0x00100000
>      >      and CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN=0x100000, didn't help.
>      >
>      >      Inputs appreciated.
>      >
>      >      Thanks
>      >
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