[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] testing 32bit PAE pv_ops dom0...
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 10:27:03PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 09:05:17PM +0100, Marc - A. Dahlhaus wrote: > > Pasi Kärkkäinen schrieb: > > >On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 06:45:59PM +0100, Marc - A. Dahlhaus wrote: > > > > > >>Hello, > > >> > > >>i had no luck in booting 32bit PAE pv_ops dom0 on xen-3.4-unstable so > > >>far... > > >>Booting the bzImage on bare Metal works like a charm (it's even stable > > >>under high load), but booting the vmlinux over xen gives just a jump of > > >>the cursor to the top left corner after the last messages from the > > >>hypervisor. My Test-Box (Dell XPS-720) lacks a serial port so i can't > > >>check if it's just a vga issue. > > >> > > >>I have most xen related options configured as modules maybe that might > > >>be the problem. I'll try to check that out over the next week. > > >> > > >>Next thing i'll try is to use xen-3.3.1 hypervisor to check that it's > > >>not hypervisor related. > > >>I also try to dig out some older Boxes on which 3.3.1 runs at the moment > > >>and try if it actually prints something to a serial console... > > >> > > >> > > > > > >VGA console is not currently working in pv_ops dom0 patches. At least I > > >haven't figured out how to make it work. > > > > > >Serial console works for me. > > > > > >There seems to be some problems with IRQ routing (?).. and thus ahci and > > >ata_piix > > >drivers don't seem to work currently. > > > > > >Hopefully next week we can get some debugging done when Jeremy is back. > > > > > >-- Pasi > > > > > Hello Pasi, > > > > followed the discussions about that and was sad to read that as my boxes > > here also use the ata_piix module to > > get the root device. I'll try to build a x86_64 image tomorrow as is > > think it's a PAE problem. > > Can you send me your working kernel config file? > > > > My pv_ops dom0 kernel (32b PAE) config is here: > http://pasik.reaktio.net/xen/pv_ops-dom0-debug/config-2.6.28-rc8-tip-dom0 > Oh, forgot to mention that I'm not sure if that config is totally correct/OK, since I can't get my dom0 kernel to boot up because of the ata_piix problems :) It _seems_ to be OK based on what I can see happening before it fails because no root volume found. That config is made with "make oldconfig" from Fedora 10 default PAE kernel, and then I added pv_ops dom0 options etc. -- Pasi _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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