Re: 5.0.1: kernel stops

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 03:29:26PM +0100, Torsten Harenberg wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> sorry, I'm new to Xen, so please excuse if this is a silly question.
> 
> I tried to install 5.0.1/xen on my Dell PowerEdge 2950. I strictly followed 
> the howto on the port's homepage (I installed even the i386 grub, although 
> meanwhile grub compiles fine on amd64)
> 
> A GENERIC kernel boots fine, but the Xen Dom0 does not boot at all:
> 
>  __  __            _____  _  _  _   
>  \ \/ /___ _ __   |___ / / || || |  
>   \  // _ \ '_ \    |_ \ | || || |_ 
>   /  \  __/ | | |  ___) || ||__   _|
>  /_/\_\___|_| |_| |____(_)_(_) |_|  
>                                     
>  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/netos/xen
>  University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
> 
>  Xen version 3.1.4 (root@) (gcc version 4.1.3 20080704 prerelease (NetBSD nb2 
> 20081120)) Tue Dec 15 20:35:46 CET 2009
>  Latest ChangeSet: unavailable
> 
> (XEN) Command line: dom0_mem=65536 com1=115200,8n1

64M may be a bit short for a amd64 dom0. Could you try a highter value,
like 128 or 256 ?
(I use 640Mb for my dom0 these days, but this is because I have some
HVM guests, and this needs more ressources in dom0).

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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