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[Xen-devel] Booting Xen on IA64 (for Dan Magenheimer)



Dan,
 
I have tried to boot Xen on my old Lion system, with your xen.good
and xenlinux.good downloaded from ftp://ftp.hpl.hp.com/pub/xen-ia64
 
The symptom is the same as with xen and Linux I have compiled myself:
    Loading xen.good... Loading Linux... ..done
    Loading initrd xenlinux.good... done
At this point, the system is stopped.
There is no activity on disks and no activity on CPUs.
I have tried several configurations, with and without serial console,
and the symptom is always the same.
 
Questions:
1) How is it possible to progress at this point ?
 
2) I haven't understand your answer about "initrd" ?
I have seen that Havard also uses the "initrd" directive, with success.
 
> Also, I've never seen the initrd message before from Xen/ia64. Elilo loads xenlinux as
> the initrd so xenlinux (currently) can't support modules. Perhaps your elilo.conf
> needs to be changed?
 
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Here, my "elilo.conf" file :
 
    prompt
    timeout=50
    default=linux
 
    image=vmlinuz-2.4.21-21.EL
        label=linux
        description="RH EL-AS3 standard (default)"
        initrd=initrd-2.4.21-21.EL.img
        read-only
        append="root=LABEL=/"
 
    image=xen
        label=xen
        description="Xen 2.6.7 and Linux kernel 2.6.9"
        initrd=vmlinuz-2.6.9
        read-only
        append="nomca console=tty0 root=LABEL=/"
 
    image=xen.good
        label=xenhp
        description="xen.good & xenlinux.good binaries from HP"
        initrd=xenlinux.good
        read-only
        append="nomca console=tty0 root=LABEL=/"
Thanks,
Philippe.
 

 


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