I was able to boot into Xen by doing the following...
Because I do not know much about configuring X, after taking a look at
xorg.conf, I decided to see if there was an openSUSE gui tool for reducing
the monitor resolution.
Finding that in the yast administrative tool I first tried reducing the
resolution to 1280x720. (1680x1050 is the default for my 22" widescreen,
which openSUSE had figured out on its own.) I also reduced the color depth
to 16 bit. I had to play with and test various resolutions, as some of the
selections did not seem to actually reduce the resolution.
For the first time, I didn''t get a blank screen after X tried to load
during
Xen kernal boot. However, openSUSE crashed during load. I tried this twice
before booting back into regular openSUSE kernal.
At that point I reduced the resolution again to 1024x768 - which looks
really cruddy on my monitor but should be fine if I ever get VNC working -
and then tried Xen kernal boot again. At this point openSUSE didn''t
crash
and I made it to the desktop environment. For the first time I was able to
run the Virtual Machine Manager and had the option to create new virtual
machines. Yay!
-Anthony
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Anthony Bosio <anthony@abosio.com> wrote:
> It seems like there are several messages in the archive and in various
> forums about this problem, but I do not see a clear course of action for
how
> to solve it. I am relatively new to Linux, compounding my problem. I just
> built a new machine for the express purpose of running Xen so my girlfriend
> and I could experiment and learn about different Linux distros. I am
running
> on an Intel DG35EC motherboard using integrated graphics and a Core 2 Duo
> E8400. I do not have a dedicated video card.
>
> I installed openSUSE-11.1-DVD-i586.iso which I had burned to DVD. I chose
> to add Xen during installation. I have not installed any upates of anything
> from the web since installation.
>
> I am able to boot normally into openSUSE and everything works fine.
>
> When I try the Xen option from the boot menu, the system prints a bunch of
> text to the screen as if it is booting normally and then it goes black, or
> blank.
>
> I have tried moving my monitor from the DVI connection to the D-Sub
> connection with the same result.
> I have tried erasing vga=0x31a from the Xen Boot Options on the Startup
> Options screen with the same result.
>
> I saw something in a forum somewhere about using Ctrl-Alt-F1,-F2, etc. to
> at least get to a command line but that does not work for me.
>
> Any guideance would be appeciated.
>
> -Anthony
>
>
> Here''s my grub menu.lst file:
>
> # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sat Jun 20 10:38:48 UTC 2009
> default 0
> timeout 8
> ##YaST - generic_mbr
> gfxmenu (hd0,1)/boot/message
> ##YaST - activate
>
> ###Don''t change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name:
linux###
> title openSUSE 11.1 - 2.6.27.7-9 (pae)
> root (hd0,1)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.7-9-pae
> root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_7Y250M0_Y644WYHE-part2
> resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_7Y250M0_Y644WYHE-part1 splash=silent
> showopts vga=0x31a
> initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.7-9-pae
>
> ###Don''t change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name:
failsafe###
> title Failsafe -- openSUSE 11.1 - 2.6.27.7-9
> root (hd0,1)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.7-9-pae
> root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_7Y250M0_Y644WYHE-part2 showopts ide=nodma
> apm=off noresume nosmp maxcpus=0 edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off
highres=off
> processor.max_cstate=1 x11failsafe vga=0x31a
> initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.7-9-pae
>
> ###Don''t change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name:
xen###
> title Xen -- openSUSE 11.1 - 2.6.27.7-9
> root (hd0,1)
> kernel /boot/xen.gz
> module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.7-9-xen
> root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_7Y250M0_Y644WYHE-part2
> resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_7Y250M0_Y644WYHE-part1 splash=silent
> showopts vga=0x31a
> module /boot/initrd-2.6.27.7-9-xen
>
>
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