Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] IA64 Intel further problems

[Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 18:13 +0200, Radek Antoniuk wrote:

> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-mckinley
>          label=Linux
>          root=/dev/sda2
>          read-only
>          initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-mckinley
> 
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-xen
>          label=xen
>          root=/dev/sda2
>          vmm=/boot/xen.gz
>          read-only
>          initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-xen
>          append="com2=115200,8n1 console=com2 dom0_mem=1G -- nomca nosmp 
> console=tty0 console=ttyS1,115200,8n1 rhgb root=/dev/sda2"

   These shouldn't matter, but you've got a lot of unnecessary options
here.  "com2=115200,8n1 console=com2" - these should be auto detected
now.  "nomca nosmp" - no longer necessary.  "console=tty0
console=ttyS1,115200,8n1" - this will split your kernel output between
VGA and serial, but if you use autodection as mentioned above, I think
ttyS1 becomes ttyS0.  You can also just remove these for only serial
console and it should autodetect correctly.  "rhgb" - this is an option
for Red Hat Graphical Boot, but based on your other elilo entry, I'd
guess you're running Debian, so doesn't do anything.  So you could
reduce this to something like:

append="dom0_mem=1G -- root=/dev/sda2"

> And for curiosity:
> fdisk -l /dev/sda

   fdisk doesn't understand GPT partition tables and shows the entire
disk as a single partition.  This is a way of protecting the partition
from old utilities.  Try 'parted /dev/sda print'.

> Disk /dev/sda: 36.7 GB, 36701199872 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4462 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1               1        4463    35841015   ee  EFI GPT
> 
> 
> Remark: the non-xen kernel works of course :)
> Any ideas?

   Posting your entire boot log may help see what's going on.  In
response to your followup; 8,2 is correct for sda2:

brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 2007-05-13 20:42 /dev/sda2

If you're using Debian as your dom0 OS and have all your drivers
builtin, why are you using an initrd?  That may be causing you problems.
I usually test with Debian and don't require one.  Thanks,

        Alex

-- 
Alex Williamson                             HP Open Source & Linux Org.


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