Re: Crashes with large SuperMicro based server. [SOLVED]

[Lars-Johan Liman <liman%cafax.se@localhost>]

liman%cafax.se@localhost:
> Hi!

> I'm trying to run a NetBSD based Xen server on a 3-year-old server with
> a SuperMicro X8DTU/X8DTU-F motherboard with 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU
> E5620 @ 2.40GHz (in total 16 cores), and 24 GB of RAM. It also sports an
> Areca RAID board, which isn't recognized, but that's a different
> story. It boots both 6.1.5 and 7.0_BETA (GENERIC) nicely (for some value
> thereof ...), as long as there's no Xen involved, and I use the on-board
> (non-RAID) disk controller.

It turned out to be the Areca controller. When I yanked it out, the
machine booted normally - with Xen.

Many thanks to Tobias Nygren who spotted this!

(And yes, it's a bit surprising, at least to me, that GENERIC makes it
through, but XEN3_DOM0 doesn't.)

				Cheers,
				  /Liman