Pkg xen devel - Jan 2008 - Bug#463232: xen-hypervisor-3.2-1-i386: boot failure with linux-image-2.6.23-1-xen-686

Package: xen-hypervisor-3.2-1-i386
Version: 3.2.0-2
Severity: normal

I'm afraid this bug report will be somewhat unspecific. Please let me
know what I need to do in order to extract more useful information out
of xen.

I have done the following to install xen:

installed xen-hypervisor-3.2-1-i386, xen-utils-3.2-1,
linux-image-2.6.23-1-xen-686

fixed /usr/sbin/update-grub (see bug #455706)

The xen entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst looks as follows:

title 386 / Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.23-1-xen-686
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /boot/xen-3.2-1-i386.gz
module          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23-1-xen-686 root=/dev/sda1 ro quiet
console=tty0
module          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.23-1-xen-686
savedefault

Well, o.k. next step I rebooted and tried to reboot into xen.

Xen boots but hangs after printing out

Xen is relinquishing VGA console.

After that, nothing happens, no hard disk activity, nothing.

I have played around with the boot options, in particular with the
console= paramenter, but to no avail.

I have tested on two machines with identical results, one is a Lenovo
laptop, 3000 N100, the other is a desktop machine with an AMD Athlon XP+
2400

I have also asked for comments on the Debian-user-de mailing list, but
no useful advise was given.

Alternatively, I tried the nopae version of xen, but this would result
in constant reboots.



-- System Iformat:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (101,
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages xen-hypervisor-3.2-1-i386 depends on:
ii  xen-utils-3.2-1               3.2.0-2    XEN administrative tools

xen-hypervisor-3.2-1-i386 recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 02:24:37PM +0100, Johannes Rohr wrote:

Hi,

> installed xen-hypervisor-3.2-1-i386, xen-utils-3.2-1,
> linux-image-2.6.23-1-xen-686
> 
> fixed /usr/sbin/update-grub (see bug #455706)
> 
> The xen entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst looks as follows:
> 
> title 386 / Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.23-1-xen-686
> root            (hd0,0)
> kernel          /boot/xen-3.2-1-i386.gz
> module          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23-1-xen-686 root=/dev/sda1 ro quiet
console=tty0
> module          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.23-1-xen-686
> savedefault
> 
I believe 2.6.23 is a domU only kernel... cannot be used on dom0...

Thanks,

Guido

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> On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 02:24:37PM +0100, Johannes Rohr wrote:
> > fixed /usr/sbin/update-grub (see bug #455706)
> 
> update-grub _must_ ignore this kernel. Anyway, no bug because the kernel
> does not support dom0 operation.
Does that mean we currently don't have a kernel newer than 2.6.18 with
dom0 support?

Thanks,

Johannes