I''m running Fedora Core 4 on a vanilla Dell Precision 350 and am using the Xen FC4 RPMs. After installing the xen and xen-kernel rpms, and editing /etc/grub.conf, I get an error during bare-metal boot of the Xen kernel: i8042.c: Can''t read CTR while initializing i8042. The machine then continues booting all the way to the Gnome graphical login screen, but I can''t login because the keyboard doesn''t work. It''s a PS/2 keyboard. In a longshot I tried adding acpi=off to grub.conf, but no go. I tried booting with a USB keyboard, and although I get the same message, the keyboard does work. However, I can''t count on all my users having access to USB keyboards. I also note that the Xen fc4 rpm tarball had only 3 rpms inside of it: xen, xen-devel, and xen-kenel. This is in contrast to the rhel4.1 and sles9sp2 tarballs, which have rpms such as glibc*, and nscd in them. Is the fc4 tarball missing these or are they not needed (the insallation instructions say to install them)? Thanks for any thoughts on how to debug or fix this, Stephen Brueckner, ATC-NY _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
> I''m running Fedora Core 4 on a vanilla Dell Precision 350 and > am using the Xen FC4 RPMs. After installing the xen and > xen-kernel rpms, and editing /etc/grub.conf, I get an error > during bare-metal boot of the Xen kernel: > > i8042.c: Can''t read CTR while initializing i8042.Weird. There must be something odd about the ps2 port.> I also note that the Xen fc4 rpm tarball had only 3 rpms > inside of it: xen, xen-devel, and xen-kenel. This is in > contrast to the rhel4.1 and sles9sp2 tarballs, which have > rpms such as glibc*, and nscd in them. Is the fc4 tarball > missing these or are they not needed (the insallation > instructions say to install them)?[the glibc and nscd RPMs aren''t needed for FC4 as the native once are good enough.]> Thanks for any thoughts on how to debug or fix this,It might be interesting to try the test CD, then collect the output of booting with both the native kernel and a xen one. I suspect it will still fail, but might give us a clue. Ian _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Ian Pratt wrote:>> I''m running Fedora Core 4 on a vanilla Dell Precision 350 and >> am using the Xen FC4 RPMs. After installing the xen and >> xen-kernel rpms, and editing /etc/grub.conf, I get an error >> during bare-metal boot of the Xen kernel: >> >> i8042.c: Can''t read CTR while initializing i8042. > > Weird. There must be something odd about the ps2 port. > > It might be interesting to try the test CD, then collect the output > of booting with both the native kernel and a xen one. I suspect it > will still fail, but might give us a clue. >I should have mentioned that I did try the test CD, and as you predict it failed as well. I wasn''t able to glean anything from the text streaming by, but then I don''t know what to look for. Is there some way to capture the text aside from a camcorder? Maybe I''ll try on another desktop. I''ve been working with Xen on a laptop for a while and never had a problem; this is my first time using it on a desktop. Stephen Brueckner, ATC-NY _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users