RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] RFC: Switch to xlilo now? Or post-3.0?

["Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins)" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxx>]

Thank you very much for your complete instructions.

I am now able to get further but domain0 still crashes.  Just after

        Freeing unused kernel memory...
        Warning: unable to open an initial console...
        cdrom: open failed

I get a very long string of errors

        nbd0: Request when not-ready
        end_request: I/O error, dev nbd0, sector 0
        Buffer I/O error on device nbd0, logical block 0 [ and 1]

this repeats for nbd1-nbd15.  After which I get:

        kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
        EXT3-fs: mounted filessystem with ordered data mode

But then (from Xen):

        handle_op: can't handle privop at 0xa000000000010670 (op=0) slot 0 
(type=5)

(note, NOT 0xa000000100010670)

and

        udevstart[1047]: General Exception: IA-64 Privileged Operation fault 16 
[1]
        Modules linked in:

and then a a long string of kernel core dumps, the first of which
is comm=udevstart.

One difference in my process is that mkinitrd unless I
add the following arguments: "--builtin mptbase --builtin mptscsih"
(These are the Fusion drivers necessary to boot the HP box.)

So I am still not able to boot RHEL4 with Xen but I guess this is progress :-)

Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: takebe_akio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:takebe_akio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 6:54 AM
> To: Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins); 
> xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: takebe_akio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] RFC: Switch to xlilo now? Or post-3.0?
> 
> Hi Dan,
> 
> Plese call Akio. :-)
> 
> I probably did the following step.
> 
> # cd /root
> # hg clone http://xenbits.xensource.com/ext/xen-ia64-unstable.hg
> # cp /home/takebe/linux-2.6.12.tar.bz2 /root/xen-ia64-unstable.hg
> # cd /root/xen-ia64-unstable.hg
> # patch -p1 < /root/xen-xlilo.patch  <-----Tristan's Patch
> # make world
> # make install-tools
> # cp xen/xen.gz /boot/efi/efi/xen/
> # cp linux-2.6.12-xen0/vmlinux /boot/efi/efi/xen/vmlinux-2.6.12-xen0
> # cd linux-2.6.12-xen0
> # make modules_install
> # mkinitrd -f /boot/efi/efi/xen/initrd-2.6.12-xen0.img 2.6.12.6-xen0
> # vi /boot/efi/efi/xen/elilo.conf 
>       image=vmlinux-2.6.12-xen0
>               label=xen
>               vmm=xen.gz
>               initrd=initrd-2.6.12-xen0.img
>               read-only
>               append="com2=115200,8n1 console=com2 sched=bvt 
> maxcpus=1 
> -- nomca nosmp console=tty0 console=ttyS1,115200,8n1 rhgb 
> root=/dev/sda2"
> 
> # reboot
> and boot with /boot/efi/efi/xen/xlilo.efi
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Akio Takebe
> 
> >Takebe -- (Sorry, should I call you Akio or Takebe?)
> >
> >Did you build and install from xen-ia64-unstable tip (cset 7734 or
> >greater)?
> >
> >If so, could you again provide the recipe for building and installing
> >on RHEL4?  I would like to try again and some things have changed
> >(such as CONFIG_LOCALVERSION and the build process for domU) 
> so I would
> >like to understand the exact steps you used successfully first.
> >
> >Thank you!
> >Dan
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: takebe_akio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:takebe_akio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> >> Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 6:11 AM
> >> To: Tristan Gingold; Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins); 
> >> Yang, Fred; xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] RFC: Switch to xlilo now? Or 
> post-3.0?
> >> 
> >> Hi Tristan,
> >> 
> >> Great!!!
> >> I test your patch with xlilo on RHEL4.
> >> I confirmed Dom0 can be booted.
> >> 
> >> The following is my elilo.conf. :-)
> >> --------------------------
> >> image=vmlinux-2.6.12-xen0
> >>         label=xen
> >>         vmm=xen.gz
> >>         initrd=initrd-2.6.12-xen0.img
> >>         read-only
> >>         append="com2=115200,8n1 console=com2 sched=bvt 
> maxcpus=1 -- 
> >> nomca nosmp console=tty0 console=ttyS1,115200,8n1 rhgb 
> root=/dev/sda2"
> >>         
> >> --------------------------
> >> 
> >> Best Regards,
> >> 
> >> Akio Takebe
> >> 
> >> >Le Mercredi 16 Novembre 2005 22:36, Magenheimer, Dan (HP 
> >> Labs Fort Collins)
> >> > a 
> >> >érit :
> >> >> > Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins) wrote:
> >> >> > > Once the xen4elilo patch got applied, this no longer worked
> >> >> > > for me.  It may have been my pilot error.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > The key descision is when to move to new elilo.efi for Xen to
> >> >> > take advantage of xen.gz loading.  We should all move forward
> >> >> > together to get the feature
> >> >> > -Fred
> >> >>
> >> >> Perhaps.  But there is not a patch on the table for
> >> >> support of compressed images yet, and there is one
> >> >> waiting for xlilo.  Since 3.0 is imminent, let's decide
> >> >> on the xlilo patch that is waiting.  If a compressed image
> >> >> patch is available and tested prior to 3.0 freeze,
> >> >> we can consider that one too.
> >> >Here is the change.
> >> >I have only tested it with the old elilo on my RHEL 3.
> >> >
> >> >Tristan.
> >> >
> >> >Signed-off-by: Tristan Gingold <tristan.gingold@xxxxxxxx>
> >> >
> >> >
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> >> 
> 
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