Subject: Re: Create a virtualdisk.
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Stephen Borrill <netbsd@precedence.co.uk>
List: port-xen
Date: 01/22/2007 08:57:09
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>> I had the same, -current (47 days ago. 4.99.3?) with Xen3. The Dom0 would
>> lock solid at seemingly random points during boot (during the time when
>> rc.d scripts were running, i.e. after the kernel messages and devices were
>> probed). Booting a standard GENERIC worked fine, but as soon as I ran it
>> as a Dom0 it would wedge. As I was sitting in a co-lo at the time and
>> needed the machine running ASAP, I had to give up and put on 3.1_STABLE
>> and Xen2. I didn't have time to do any more investigation, but it's
>> probably worth a data point.
>
> What sort of hardware is it ?

IBM x305. Single 2GHz P4, 1280MB. 3.1_STABLE dmesg available if necessary.

> Did you try enabling/disabling ACPI ?

No, I didn't. Unfortunately, I'm in no position to try at the moment.

> I had this issue at one time on a SMP motherboard, before I added ACPI
> support for Xen3 in NetBSD

It's not SMP, would that make a difference?

-- 
Stephen