NetBSD 7.0 Not Booting on AWS

[Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hi,

I was trying to fire up a NetBSD 7 instance in the Oregon region in
AWS, which is failing to boot. The instance configuration is:

m3.medium type instance
30 GB SSD as the root device (tried with magnetic disks too)
AMI id: ami-9c9f8ffd

The instance was unreachable. The system log as shown by AWS is pasted
below. Did I miss something while configuring the instance?



Xen Minimal OS!
  start_info: 0x1110000(VA)
    nr_pages: 0xf0000
  shared_inf: 0x7dfa4000(MA)
     pt_base: 0x1113000(VA)
nr_pt_frames: 0xd
    mfn_list: 0x990000(VA)
   mod_start: 0x0(VA)
     mod_len: 0
       flags: 0x0
    cmd_line: root=/dev/sda1 ro 4
  stack:      0x94f860-0x96f860
MM: Init
      _text: 0x0(VA)
     _etext: 0x6000d(VA)
   _erodata: 0x78000(VA)
     _edata: 0x80b00(VA)
stack start: 0x94f860(VA)
       _end: 0x98fe68(VA)
  start_pfn: 1123
    max_pfn: f0000
Mapping memory range 0x1400000 - 0xf0000000
setting 0x0-0x78000 readonly
skipped 0x1000
MM: Initialise page allocator for 189c000(189c000)-f0000000(f0000000)
MM: done
Demand map pfns at f0001000-20f0001000.
Heap resides at 20f0002000-40f0002000.
Initialising timer interface
Initialising console ... done.
gnttab_table mapped at 0xf0001000.
Initialising scheduler
Thread "Idle": pointer: 0x20f0002010, stack: 0x2050000
Initialising xenbus
Thread "xenstore": pointer: 0x20f00027c0, stack: 0x2060000
Dummy main: start_info=0x96f960
Thread "main": pointer: 0x20f0002f70, stack: 0x2070000
"main" "root=/dev/sda1" "ro" "4"
vbd 2049 is hd0
******************* BLKFRONT for device/vbd/2049 **********


backend at /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/6425/2049
62914560 sectors of 512 bytes
**************************
 [H [J  Booting 'NetBSD AMI'



root (hd0)

 Filesystem type is ext2fs, using whole disk

kernel /boot/netbsd root=xbd1



xc_dom_probe_bzimage_kernel: kernel is not a bzImage
close blk: backend at /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/6425/2049
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NetBSD 7.0 (XEN3_DOMU.201509250726Z)
total memory = 3840 MB
avail memory = 3709 MB
kern.module.path=/stand/amd64/7.0/modules
mainbus0 (root)
hypervisor0 at mainbus0: Xen version 4.2.amazon
vcpu0 at hypervisor0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 v2 @ 2.50GHz, id 0x306e4
xenbus0 at hypervisor0: Xen Virtual Bus Interface
xencons0 at hypervisor0: Xen Virtual Console Driver
xbd0 at xenbus0 id 2049: Xen Virtual Block Device Interface
xennet0 at xenbus0 id 0: Xen Virtual Network Interface
xennet0: MAC address 0a:9d:75:e7:04:fb
balloon0 at xenbus0 id 0: Xen Balloon driver
balloon0: current reservation: 3932160 KiB
xennet0: using RX copy mode
balloon0: current reservation: 983040 pages => target: 983040 pages
boot device: <unknown>
root device: