Re: [Xen-deve] xen/stable-2.6.32.x bare-metal: panic early exception 0e rip 10:0 error 10 cr2 0

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 01:04:48AM +0200, Andreas Olsowski wrote:
> Source:
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git
> 
> Tested branches:
> xen/stable-2.6.32.x
> xen/next-2.6.32.x
> 
> When trying to boot the current kernel bare-metal it will not load
> properly, instead i am prompted with:
> 
> panic early exception 0e rip 10:0 error 10 cr2 0
> 
> at the bottom line of the screen.
> 
> Here is a screenshot:
> http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/10/crashtm.png/
> 
> 
> 
> System is:
> Dell PE2950 (Xeon L5335, Intel 5000 chipset)
> Debian 6.0.2 squeeze(stable)
> grub 1.98+20100804-14
> 
> Kernel .config:
> http://pastebin.com/bQAyC30i
> 
> It has been derived from the example configurations on
> "http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps".
> 
> 
> The kernel boots loads fine as dom0 under Xen 4.1.1
> 
> 
> Though i know this kernel tree is intended to be a dom0 kernel, it
> should still be bootable bare-metal or am i mistaken?

It should have been. Not sure what is happening - however the 3.0.x
kernel boots for you as Dom0 and baremetal, right?

> 
> It worked previously, allthough i am unable to tell what the latest
> working version was.

OK. I don't think we are going to look at this in much detail unless
you have some bisection numbers.

The upstream 3.x kernels are our main focus - to make sure they work
properly and we haven't really focused much on the 2.6.32.