Subject: Re: xen novice problem
To: Mark Davies <mark@mcs.vuw.ac.nz>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-xen
Date: 11/29/2007 12:26:53
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 01:38:25PM +1300, Mark Davies wrote:
> Hi,
>    Finally trying out Xen for the first time.  I have a Dell Optiplex 
> 755 that runs an i386 GENERIC kernel fine, but if I boot xen and the 
> XEN3_DOM0 kernel then I get (very slowly) screens of:
> 
> 	piixide0:0:0: lost interrupt
> 		type: ata tc_bcount: 2048 tc_skip: 0
> 
> 
> Both kernels are from a current of yesterday.  Any suggestions?

I guess you're running a netbsd-4 kernel, right ? disable ACPI
(both on Xen and the NetBSD kernel) or switch the IDE controller to AHCI
mode in BIOS. 

This should be fixed in current.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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