Re: [Xen-users] Kernel panics and blank /var/log/messages?

[Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 02:14:54PM +0100, Yoav Felberbaum wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> My Xen-ified kernel (3.0.3) on a dedicated host seems to be kernel- 
> panicing upon boot. Since IPMI/SOL seems to be nonfunctional in the  
> Xen kernel, I cannot tell what is causing the kernel to panic.

SOL works (for SOL definitions of works...) fine for me on an IBM
x366. What are your Xen and Linux command line options? do you have
SOL working with a stock Linux kernel?

> So I thought I'd check /var/log/messages. But to my surprise, that  
> also seems to have no output for any messages generated by the Xen  
> kernel. Why? (The default RHEL4.4 kernels seems to log to this file  
> just fine, and I've checked syslog.conf which looks fine).

If you panic before mounting the root file system, there's no file
system to write the log output to.

Cheers,
Muli

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