[Xen-users] Xen hangs on boot with blinking cursor after Grub menu

[Seraphi <seraphi.lord@xxxxxxxxx>]

I currently have several HP blades running Xen 3.1 on Suse 10.3 and they work fine.

 

 I now have 2 new servers of a different brand and not blades. Both the new servers and old blades are all Intel dual quad-core 64bit servers. They are all running the same version of Suse 10.3 64bit, and the same version of Xen 3.1 (from zypper/yast). For some reason the new servers hang on boot when I try to boot the Xen kernel. The grub menu goes away after selecting Xen, then the menu.lst info is printed to the screen. Below that I get a blinking cursor. It sits like this until I hard reboot:

 

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root (hd0,0)
 Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type is 0x83
kernel /xen.gz
   [Multiboot-elf, <0x1000000 :0xbd5c0>, shtab=0x20f078, entry=0x1000000]
module /vmlinuz-2.6.22.17-0.1-xen root=/dev/vg00/dom0_root vga=0x314 resume=/dev/vg00/dom0_swap splash=silent showopts
   [Multiboot-module @ 0x210000, 0x7342b8 bytes]
module /initrd-2.6.22.17-0.1-xen
   [Multiboot-module @ 0x945000, 0x76d200 bytes]

 

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About the servers with the problem:

Dual Xeon 5420 2.5GHz (Intel VT is enabled)
SuperMicro MBD-X7DBR-I +Motherboard - Intel 5000P (Blackford) Chipset
32GB DDR2

 

There are two hardware RAID-1's

RAID-1 2x500GB
 ext3 /boot 128MB
 0x8E Linux LVM 499.9GB for vg00
   LVM vg00/dom0_root ext3 8GB
   LVM vg00/dom0_swap 2GB

 

RAID-1 2x500GB
 0x8E Linux LVM 500GB for vg01
LVM vg01 <unused at the moment>

 

I have tried both the Intel and Adaptec RAID controller codebase. I have tried turning off Intel VT. Both had no effect.

 

Suse works without issue until I try to boot the Xen kernel, then it hangs with what is posted above. Any idea what this could possibly be?

 

 

 

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