Hi Folks, I''ve been trying unsuccessfully over the past couple of weeks to bring Xen up on a new AMD dual-core system. I''ve resolved a number of issues, but am still unable to boot the hypervisor. I can reproduce this particular error using both the Xen 2.0.6 live CD and the SuSE 9.3 compiled version of Xen. Fedora Core 4''s packaged version seemed to die with other errors (or the same error manifested a different way). System: Asus A8N-e motherboard running the latest (1006.003) bios. AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ 4GB Ram (more detail available upon request) Error: As Xen boots, it inevitably comes to a point where all it does is write errors to the console in a seemingly infinite loop saying: "Timer ISR: Time went backwards -xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx" where the x''s look to be time offsets. I saw a couple notes on the devel list regarding a similar error, but it seemed a good while ago and applied to a domU. I''m not sure how to capture log output without making use of the serial output. If someone could point me that way, I can provide the entire log. Thanks in advance for your help and thanks to everyone who''s worked on this - it''s fantastic. - Reuben _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Anybody? If it helps, I tried loading all previously available versions of Asus'' bios firmware images without success. "UnXenified" Linux kernels boot without issue. Has anyone seen a similar (AMD dualcore x64 + Asus A8N motherboard) setup working? Has anyone seen similar bugs or error messaging relating to the system clock? I''m dead in the water at this point... On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Reuben Kabel wrote:> Hi Folks, > > I''ve been trying unsuccessfully over the past couple of weeks to > bring Xen up on a new AMD dual-core system. I''ve resolved a number of issues, > but am still unable to boot the hypervisor. I can reproduce this particular > error using both the Xen 2.0.6 live CD and the SuSE 9.3 compiled version of > Xen. Fedora Core 4''s packaged version seemed to die with other errors (or the > same error manifested a different way). > > System: > Asus A8N-e motherboard running the latest (1006.003) bios. > AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ > 4GB Ram > (more detail available upon request) > > Error: > As Xen boots, it inevitably comes to a point where all it does is write > errors to the console in a seemingly infinite loop saying: > > "Timer ISR: Time went backwards -xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx" > where the x''s look to be time offsets. > > I saw a couple notes on the devel list regarding a similar error, but it > seemed a good while ago and applied to a domU. > > I''m not sure how to capture log output without making use of the serial > output. If someone could point me that way, I can provide the entire log. > Thanks in advance for your help and thanks to everyone who''s worked on this - > it''s fantastic. - Reuben > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
> I''m dead in the water at this point...You''re not the only one. I can only suggest you try Xen unstable and see if the problem still exists. It may be that an apparently unrelated change fixed it, in which case we can try to propagate the fix back. If you can squint and identify what line of output comes before the Timer ISR stuff, or if you can find some way of getting serial console output, that would at least provide a starting point. -- There may come a time The open palm of desire, When I will lose you, ]http://surreal.istic.org/[ The rose of Jericho, Lose you as I lose my sight, Soil as soft as Summer, Days falling backward into velvet night; The strength to let you go. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users