Re: NetBSD/i386 6.0_BETA HVM won't boot

[Stephen Borrill <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost>]

On Fri, 16 Mar 2012, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:35:43PM +0000, Stephen Borrill wrote:
> > I've been installing 6.0_BETA (i386 and amd64) on XenServer 6.0.2 by
> > doing a HVM install and then converting to PV. amd64 was fine (as
> > was netbsd-6 i386), but after installing, i386 will not boot. The
> > bootloader loads relevant modules and the kernel, but as soon as the
> > kernel is entered the VM powers off. No errors are seen.
>
> I tried with a Xen 4.1.2 HVM, I could boot and install from cd,
> and then boot from disk. I used NetBSD-6.0_BETA-i386.iso from
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/iso/6.0_BETA/

I used the same ISO and repeated the procedure twice. I used a 10GB 
virtual disk and accepted 508MB for swap in the installer. The only change 
I made from the defaults was to switch the root filesystem to FFSv1 
(because pygrub doesn't like FFSv2).

Odd.

--
Stephen