Re: [Xen-users] debian lenny 3.2.1 doesn't boot, livexen boots just fine

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 03:00:09PM -0500, Gabor Szilagyi wrote:
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> Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:11:50AM -0500, Gabor Szilagyi wrote:
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> >> Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 09:41:02AM -0500, Gabor Szilagyi wrote:
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> >>>> Martin Kraus wrote:
> >>>>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 05:34:59PM -0200, Thiago Camargo Martins 
> >>>>> Cordeiro wrote:
> >>>>>> Hi!
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 1- Get the ISO of the Debian Lenny 5.0 amd64 from http://debian.org;
> >>>>>> 2- Install your Debian into your own partition scheme (LVM over RAID);
> >>>>>> 3- Reboot into your new fresh Debian Lenny; upgrade it;
> >>>>>> 4- * GRUB1 is still the default in Lenny, verify it;
> >>>>>> 5- Install the Xen with the command: "aptitude install
> >>>>>> xen-linux-system-2.6.26-2-xen-amd64";
> >>>>>> 6- Reboot into you new dom0.
> >>>>> Thanks for the effort but how does this solve the problem that xen 
> >>>>> doesn't
> >>>>> start? I'm already running virtual hosts on that machine and I can't rip
> >>>>> all of this apart just to get stuck with unbootable system again. 
> >>>>>
> >>>>> What I need is to find out what the problem is and then start ripping 
> >>>>> stuff
> >>>>> apart. I've tried to compile xen myself, versions 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, hg 
> >>>>> tip, all
> >>>>> get stuck at some time during xen boot. Until I've tried the live cd, I
> >>>>> thought that it's some incompatibility with my hardware but since the 
> >>>>> live cd is
> >>>>> debian lenny on iso and it works fine, I have to look for the part that 
> >>>>> causes
> >>>>> xen to freeze.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Since there is only bios, grub and xen running in turn before the 
> >>>>> machine
> >>>>> gets stuck I'd say that the problem is in one of these systems.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I'll try to find out something about grub and then I'm going after kvm 
> >>>>> before
> >>>>> I decide to scratch the whole machine.
> >>>> Hi Martin,
> >>>>
> >>>> I am having the same problem ... ever since I installed grub2 I can not
> >>>> get xen to boot. I was told it is possible but yet to see someone
> >>>> writing it down how. Tried the "new" syntax, put dummy=dummy as first
> >>>> cmd line argument, even compiled the root=/... in the kernel nothing 
> >>>> works.
> >>>>
> >>>> I just get Panic on CPU 0 ... and stuck dump.
> >>>>
> >>> Please see:
> >>> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenCommonProblems
> >>>
> >>> section:
> >>> "Booting Xen with GRUB2 fails?"
> >> Thanks for the tip ... I tried all those no change :
> >>
> >> here what I have currently in gurb.cfg both recommendation is use the
> >> file name twice and use dummy=dummy
> > 
> > No, you don't use both of them.
> > 
> > The problem is that grub2 destroys the *first* parameter, 
> > so if you add the filename twice, that already is the extra 
> > first parameter, so no need for dummy anymore.
> > 
> > Or then don't add the filename, but use dummy.
> > You just need *one* extra parameter there, as the first parameter.
> > 
> > See the working example from here:
> > http://old.nabble.com/Strange-interaction-from-grub2-and-XEN-td26464067.html
> > 
> > 
> >> I am trying both the newest patched kernel and the stuck kernel coming
> >> with 3.4.2 source ... both compile without error (I pretty sure I got
> >> the config right for xen). Actually I can boot the 2.6.31.6-xen-2 on
> >> bare metal (strangely not the 2.6.18.8 !!)
> >>
> > 
> > xenlinux kernels (2.6.18.8) don't support running as baremetal.
> > pv_ops Xen kernel do support that.
> > 
> >> But got the same error ... so I strongly believe that the xen-3.4.2.gz
> >> part crashes already with grub2 ..
> >>
> >> I tried several other combination from grub> prompt pretty much the same
> >>  CPU 0 panic and the numbers after (sometime sligthly different dump )
> >>
> > 
> > We really need to see the full console output to say what's wrong.
> 
> Pasi, Sorry for the crossposting I put this in my original thread as
> well but maybe helpful here..
>

Ok.. Hmm.. weird crash. Try removing "sync_console console_to_ring" from the 
xen options. 

Does that make a difference?

-- Pasi
 
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> (XEN) Xen version 3.4.2 (root@xxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.3.4 (Debian
> 4.3.4-6) ) Mon Jan 25 16:28:40 EST 2010
> (XEN) Latest ChangeSet: unavailable
> 
> (XEN) Console output is synchronous.
> 
> (XEN) Command line: dummy=dummy dom0_mem=512M loglvl=all
> guest_loglvl=all sync_console console_to_ring com1=9600,8n1 console=com1
> (XEN) Video information:
> 
> (XEN)  VGA is text mode 80x25, font 8x16
> 
> (XEN)  VBE/DDC methods: V2; EDID transfer time: 1 seconds
> 
> (XEN) Disc information:
> 
> (XEN)  Found 2 MBR signatures
> 
> (XEN)  Found 2 EDD information structures
> (XEN) Xen-e820 RAM map:
> (XEN)  0000000000000000 - 000000000009d000 (usable)
> (XEN)  000000000009d000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
> (XEN)  00000000000ce000 - 00000000000d4000 (reserved)
> (XEN)  00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
> (XEN)  0000000000100000 - 00000000d7f80000 (usable)
> (XEN)  00000000d7f80000 - 00000000d7f98000 (ACPI data)
> (XEN)  00000000d7f98000 - 00000000d7fbc000 (ACPI NVS)
> (XEN)  00000000d7fbc000 - 00000000e0000000 (reserved)
> (XEN)  00000000f8000000 - 00000000fc000000 (reserved)
> (XEN)  00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
> (XEN)  00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
> (XEN)  00000000ff000000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
> (XEN)  0000000100000000 - 00000001fe000000 (usable)
> (XEN)  00000001fe000000 - 0000000200000000 (reserved)
> (XEN)
> (XEN) ****************************************
> (XEN) Panic on CPU 0:
> (XEN) Cannot access memory beyond end of bootstrap direct-map area
> (XEN) ****************************************
> (XEN)
> (XEN) Reboot in five seconds...
> (XEN) Unknown interrupt (cr2=00000000)
> (XEN)   ff202ec4  a1e00000  00000002  ff22be54  00000086  00000002
> ff1d68dc  00000000  ff14e687  0000e008  00000286  ff1d67c0  0000000a
> ff1c5146  ff22b0
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> 
> Gabor
> 
> > 
> > -- Pasi
> > 
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