Re: [Xen-users] gentoo not booting ( was Kernel panics)

[Galevsky <galevsky@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I am using grub, and I know that I was not pointing to a good xen.gz.
So, I will get ahead and let you know if other problems happen.

Thanks for your help ;o)

Gal'


2007/7/6, Yves Dorfsman <yves@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Galevsky wrote:
>
> >> But... the XEN'ed kernel cannot write to the filesystem until it has
> >> managed to mount it, from what you are saying you don't get to that
> >> point, do you ?
> >
> > you're right, but I am riding an ext3 fs which support is included
> > into the kernel itself, so I *should not* face fs problems.... but I
> > be sure... since no log. What's wrong on that kernel ? no idea. I
> > retrieved the fs/network/optim/ options (all built into the kernel, no
> > module to be sure) from the running kernel via make oldconfig ....
>
> Well, it needs to boot and mount the filesystem before it can write to it.
> You're saying it does not even boot.
>
> > Well, it is my first try with xen, and I have no idea about patching
> > vanilla sources to make them xen compatible -xen-sources are in for
> > that purpose- but if you tell me it is not a hard pain, I can have a
> > deeper eye on it.
>
> This is my first try too, and I haven't been successfull yet, so I'm not
> sure that I should give advice, but, I don't understand what you mean by
> it does not boot. What boot loader do you use (grub ?) ?
>
> Once you tell it to boot, what happens, does it reboot right away and come
> back to the boot loader, or do you get the "XEN: xxx" mesages, and then it
> stops and reboot ?
>
> Is your kernerl instruction pointing to a valid xen.gz ?
>
>
> Yves.
>
>
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