Re: [Xen-users] can't get past grub- SOLVED

[Michael Hrivnak <mjhns@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This was a simple one.  As it turns out, xen does not support the AMD 
K6-2 processor.
Michael

Michael Hrivnak wrote:

> The problem:  When grub attempts to boot xen, it hangs on a screen 
> that looks like this:
> /*-------
> Booting command list
>
> kernel (hd0,0)/xen-3.0.gz dom0_mem=64000
>  (Multiboot-elf, <0xsomeaddress:another:another>, shtab=0xsomeaddress, 
> entry=0x100000)
> module (hd0,0)/vmlinuz-2.6.12-xen0 root=/dev/hda5 ro console=tty0
>  (Multiboot-module @ 0x194000, 0x4aea08 bytes)
> ------- */
>
> Background:
>
> This is a fresh Mandriva 2006 install that works with grub but not 
> xen.  I tried the Mandriva xen packages, got the above result, removed 
> them, installed the latest binaries, and still get the same result.
> The system uses a /boot partition out of necessity.  It's grub config 
> is included below.  It uses an AMD K6-2 450mhz processor with 128M 
> ram, recently tested with memtest86.  I also included the fstab below.
> Can you help me figure out what's going wrong?  It seems that the xen 
> kernel isn't getting even an inch off the ground.
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
> /*-----/boot/grub/menu.lst--------------
> timeout 6
> color 2
> splashimage (hd0,0)/grub/mdv-grub_splash.xpm.gz
> default 0
> viewport 3 2 77 22
> shade 1
>
> title 2611-8
> kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 resume=/dev/hda1
> initrd (hd0,0)/initrd.img
>
> title Xen 3.0
> kernel (hd0,0)/xen-3.0.gz dom0_mem=64000
> module (hd0,0)/vmlinuz-2.6.12-xen0 root=/dev/hda5 ro console=tty0
> ------------------------*/
>
> /*----------/etc/fstab-------
> /dev/hda5 / reiserfs notail 1 1
> /dev/hda1 /boot reiserfs notail 1 2
> /dev/md0 /home reiserfs notail 1 2
> /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto 
> umask=0022,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0
> none /mnt/floppy supermount 
> dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0022,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 
> 0 0
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/md1 swap swap defaults 0 0
> -------------------*/
>
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