RE: [Xen-users] AMD-64 install hangs on kernel load

[Paul Archer <parcher@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Petersson, Mats wrote:

> > When I try to boot, though, I get as far as the xen kernel
> > trying to load,
> > and then grub spits this out, and the machine reboots:
> >
> > root  (hd0,0)
> >   Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> > kernel  /xen-3.0.4-1.gz
> >     [Multiboot-elf, <0x100000:0x9a878:0x5a788>, shtab=0x1f5078,
> > entry=0x100000]
> > module  /vmlinuz-2.6.16.33-xen root=/dev/sda2 ro console=ttyS1,115200
> > noreboot
> > sync_console
> >     [Multiboot-module @ 0x1f6000, 0x52afa0 bytes]
> > module  /initrd.img-2.6.16.33-xen
> >     [Multiboot-module @ 0x721000, 0x4b6000 bytes]
> >
> >
> > Is there anything I'm missing? Anything I can do to help debug the
> > problem?
> And nothing else appears on the console (serial port)?
Nope. The next line afer what's shown above is after the machine resets. 
This is a server, so I get full BIOS redirection. I know I'm not missing 
anything there.
> I don't see anything directly wrong, but it's obviously "not as it
> should be".
>
> What version of gcc are you using - if you have a bleeding edge
> compiler, maybe it clobbered the binaries in some way (we've seen
> problems where new compilers optimization features causes Xen to "go
> wrong" because the compiler makes assumptions about things that aren't
> matching reality). Gcc 4.0 or older should be fine tho'.
ned75:~# gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/x86_64-linux/3.3.5/specs
Configured with: ../src/configure -v 
--enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,pascal,objc,ada,treelang --prefix=/usr 
--mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/x
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)


This is a fresh debian install, no addons or changes at all.

Paul

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