Xen devel - Mar 2012 - Panic on CPU0 : Unable to boot with Xen 4.1 on Fedora 16, manual grub2 config after compiling Xen from source

Hello all,

I had asked my question on xen-users list, but I did not get any responses
for 5 days despite bumping the mail up once. Hence forwarding the question
here.

Hello,
Newbie here. So please be patient. If you need any extra information please
ask, and I will try to provide.
My intention is to study xen source and hopefully make some contributions
to it. So I tried to compile Xen 4.1 from source and start using it.

My environment details:
2.0 GHz 32 bit CPU, 2GB RAM with XP and Ubuntu Wubi install. ( Ubuntu
installed as an application within XP, can dual boot)
Trying to install Xen on external USB Hard disk (500 GB) : Installed Fedora
16 on this. Can boot and use Fedora 16 just fine from this.

I found these tutorials after searching and used them.

1. http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Xen_4_Tutorial
Used a partition scheme very similar to one mentioned in above tutorial.
Also disabled selinux.

2. Found a second tutorial for building xen from source:
http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Compiling_Xen

3. I only complied and installed Xen, not linux kernel ( because wiki says
Fedora16 kernel is a valid Xen Dom0 Kernel ) according to
http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Fedora_16_Dom0

After I installed Xen, confirmed that under /boot I have xen.gz, and the
folder /etc/xen exists.

I modified my grub2.cfg file by looking at a sample grub2 configuration
mentioned at
http://old-list-archives.xen.org/archives/html/xen-changelog/2011-10/msg00151.html

Now when I boot with Xen 4.1, it gives me a Kernel panic and fails to load
the dom0 kernel. Exact error message is

''elf_xen_note_check: ERROR: Will only load images built for the
generic loader or Linux images'')

PANIC on CPU0:
Could not setup DOM0 guest OS

I am attaching my grub configuration file. Please have a look and advice.


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Bumping this thread up.

Please can someone have a look at this and help. I think there is something
wrong with my grub.cfg so if someone has a working grub2 config, they can
help me.

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Ranjith Krishnan
<pkranjithpk@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I had asked my question on xen-users list, but I did not get any responses
> for 5 days despite bumping the mail up once. Hence forwarding the question
> here.
>
> Hello,
> Newbie here. So please be patient. If you need any extra information
> please ask, and I will try to provide.
> My intention is to study xen source and hopefully make some contributions
> to it. So I tried to compile Xen 4.1 from source and start using it.
>
> My environment details:
> 2.0 GHz 32 bit CPU, 2GB RAM with XP and Ubuntu Wubi install. ( Ubuntu
> installed as an application within XP, can dual boot)
> Trying to install Xen on external USB Hard disk (500 GB) : Installed
> Fedora 16 on this. Can boot and use Fedora 16 just fine from this.
>
> I found these tutorials after searching and used them.
>
> 1. http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Xen_4_Tutorial
> Used a partition scheme very similar to one mentioned in above tutorial.
> Also disabled selinux.
>
> 2. Found a second tutorial for building xen from source:
> http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Compiling_Xen
>
> 3. I only complied and installed Xen, not linux kernel ( because wiki says
> Fedora16 kernel is a valid Xen Dom0 Kernel ) according to
> http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Fedora_16_Dom0
>
> After I installed Xen, confirmed that under /boot I have xen.gz, and the
> folder /etc/xen exists.
>
> I modified my grub2.cfg file by looking at a sample grub2 configuration
> mentioned at
>
http://old-list-archives.xen.org/archives/html/xen-changelog/2011-10/msg00151.html
>
> Now when I boot with Xen 4.1, it gives me a Kernel panic and fails to load
> the dom0 kernel. Exact error message is
>
> ''elf_xen_note_check: ERROR: Will only load images built for the
generic loader or Linux images'')
>
> PANIC on CPU0:
>
> Could not setup DOM0 guest OS
>
> I am attaching my grub configuration file. Please have a look and advice.
>
>
> --
> Ranjith
>
>

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On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 19:34 +0000, Ranjith Krishnan wrote:
[...]
> 3. I only complied and installed Xen, not linux kernel ( because wiki
> says Fedora16 kernel is a valid Xen Dom0 Kernel ) according
> to http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Fedora_16_Dom0
[...]
> Now when I boot with Xen 4.1, it gives me a Kernel panic and fails to
> load the dom0 kernel. Exact error message is
> 
> 
> ''elf_xen_note_check: ERROR: Will only load images built for the
generic loader or Linux images'')
> PANIC on CPU0: 
I think it would be worth double checking the assumption that this
kernel supports Xen. It is also worth figuring out what the compresison
algorithm used is.

You could use the attached bzexplode.c to extract the cmpressed elf
from /boot/vmlinuz:
	$ bzexplode /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.7-1.fc16.i686 > vmlinux.compressed

Once you have that decompress it. e.g.
	$ file vmlinux.compressed
	e.g. ...gziped data...
	$ zcat vmlinux.compressed > vmlinux
	$ file vmlinux
	(should be an ELF file)

Then run "/usr/lib/xen/bin/readnotes vmlinux". If the kernel is Xen
capable then you should get some stuff output. Please post the output of
all the above commands.

Ian.


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On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Ranjith Krishnan <pkranjithpk@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I had asked my question on xen-users list, but I did not get any responses
> for 5 days despite bumping the mail up once. Hence forwarding the question
> here.
>
> Hello,
> Newbie here. So please be patient. If you need any extra information please
> ask, and I will try to provide.
> My intention is to study xen source and hopefully make some contributions
to
> it. So I tried to compile Xen 4.1 from source and start using it.
OK, but does the version that come with Fedora work for you? Have you tried
''yum install xen'' and seen how it installs and configured the
grub2.cfg?
>
> My environment details:
> 2.0 GHz 32 bit CPU, 2GB RAM with XP and Ubuntu Wubi install. ( Ubuntu
> installed as an application within XP, can dual boot)
> Trying to install Xen on external USB Hard disk (500 GB) : Installed Fedora
> 16 on this. Can boot and use Fedora 16 just fine from this.
>
> I found these tutorials after searching and used them.
>
> 1. http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Xen_4_Tutorial
> Used a partition scheme very similar to one mentioned in above tutorial.
> Also disabled selinux.
Ewww. That is not good. Please don''t use that.
>
> 2. Found a second tutorial for building xen from source:
> http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Compiling_Xen
>
> 3. I only complied and installed Xen, not linux kernel ( because wiki says
> Fedora16 kernel is a valid Xen Dom0 Kernel ) according
> to http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Fedora_16_Dom0
>
> After I installed Xen, confirmed that under /boot I have xen.gz, and the
> folder /etc/xen exists.
>
> I modified my grub2.cfg file by looking at a sample grub2 configuration
> mentioned
>
at http://old-list-archives.xen.org/archives/html/xen-changelog/2011-10/msg00151.html
>
> Now when I boot with Xen 4.1, it gives me a Kernel panic and fails to load
> the dom0 kernel. Exact error message is
>
> ''elf_xen_note_check: ERROR: Will only load images built for the
generic
> loader or Linux images'')
>
So that looks like you are trying to load the initrd image instead of
the kernel. Sounds to me that you have missed a "module" line or
perhaps are using the "kernel"/ "initrd"
stanza.

I would strongly recommend you first install from the yum repos so
that you can get a working baseline first.
> PANIC on CPU0:
>
>
> Could not setup DOM0 guest OS
>
> I am attaching my grub configuration file. Please have a look and advice.
>
>
> --
> Ranjith
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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> Xen-devel@lists.xen.org
> http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
>

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Ian Campbell
<Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 19:34 +0000, Ranjith Krishnan wrote:
> [...]
> > 3. I only complied and installed Xen, not linux kernel ( because wiki
> > says Fedora16 kernel is a valid Xen Dom0 Kernel ) according
> > to http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Fedora_16_Dom0
> [...]
> > Now when I boot with Xen 4.1, it gives me a Kernel panic and fails to
> > load the dom0 kernel. Exact error message is
> >
> >
> > ''elf_xen_note_check: ERROR: Will only load images built for
the generic
> loader or Linux images'')
> > PANIC on CPU0:
>
> I think it would be worth double checking the assumption that this
> kernel supports Xen. It is also worth figuring out what the compresison
> algorithm used is.
>
> You could use the attached bzexplode.c to extract the cmpressed elf
> from /boot/vmlinuz:
>        $ bzexplode /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.7-1.fc16.i686 > vmlinux.compressed
>
> Once you have that decompress it. e.g.
>        $ file vmlinux.compressed
>        e.g. ...gziped data...
>        $ zcat vmlinux.compressed > vmlinux
>        $ file vmlinux
>        (should be an ELF file)
>
> Then run "/usr/lib/xen/bin/readnotes vmlinux". If the kernel is
Xen
> capable then you should get some stuff output. Please post the output of
> all the above commands.
>
> Ian.
>
Hello Ian,
Thanks for responding.

Meanwhile I already got help of my university system administrators who
figured out the problem.
I was trying to install it on a 32 bit machine, and the fedora 16 dom0 page
explicitly mention that I need to use PAE-kernel for the i686 version.
(This bit of info was missing in the xen wiki though.)
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvopsDom0
When we tried yum install on the xen-pae, this particular error went away.

-- 
Ranjith

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