Xen devel - Feb 2005 - RE: xen brings machine in a boot loop. Serial console output attached.

> And then the machine reboots automatically. Is my hardware 
> simply inadequate for xen? 
> Pentium 200Mhz (P6-class) 
Pentiums are not P6. Do you mean a Pentium Pro?
> 64 MB ram 
You need more memory to do anything meaningful.

Ian


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OK, I think the mystery is solved: I was mislead by the MHz of the CPU;
233 Mhz, I looked it up a intel cpu product table and concluded that it
must be a Pentium Pro. But after looking a bit more carefully it seems
to be a Pentium MMX at 233 Mhz, and that is a P5 class. Pardon me for
this mistake. 
Lukily there is always something good in a bad experience, I learned a
lot about serial consoles...

Regards,

Filip Sergeys





On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 12:17, Ian Pratt wrote:

     > And then the machine reboots automatically. Is my hardware 
    > simply inadequate for xen? 
    > Pentium 200Mhz (P6-class) 
    
    Pentiums are not P6. Do you mean a Pentium Pro?
    
    > 64 MB ram 
    
    You need more memory to do anything meaningful.
    
    Ian
    
    
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> OK, I think the mystery is solved: I was mislead by the MHz of the CPU;
> 233 Mhz, I looked it up a intel cpu product table and concluded that it
> must be a Pentium Pro. But after looking a bit more carefully it seems
> to be a Pentium MMX at 233 Mhz, and that is a P5 class. Pardon me for
> this mistake.
> Lukily there is always something good in a bad experience, I learned a
> lot about serial consoles...
hmm pentium does support 4mb pages, BUT, i''m not sure about cmove (I
think
it was introduced in Pentium Pro), apply folllowing patch and see if it 
helps

--- 1.32/xen/arch/x86/Rules.mk  2004-11-17 06:43:29 -07:00
+++ edited/xen/arch/x86/Rules.mk        2004-12-07 14:16:40 -07:00
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ CFLAGS  += $(call test-gcc-flag,-fno-sta
  CFLAGS  += $(call test-gcc-flag,-fno-stack-protector-all)

  ifeq ($(TARGET_SUBARCH),x86_32)
-CFLAGS  += -m32 -march=i686
+CFLAGS  += -m32 -march=i586
  LDFLAGS := --oformat elf32-i386
  endif




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