Re: [Xen-users] Xen kernel booting to black screen.

[Daniel Shub <Daniel.Shub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I believe I had a similar problem with a Marvell SATA controller. I could boot 
from the standard kernel, but not the Xen kernel. Luckily my desktop 
motherboard also had an Intel SATA controller.

On 14 Jun 2013, at 18:56, "Joshua Tuttle" <jtuttle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hey,
> 
> Thanks for looking at it.
> I followed your suggestions, and removed "quiet" and replaced it with 
> "vga=normal", but all it does now is cause a boot loop. The "Loading initial 
> ramdisk" comes before Xen's dmesg output which I do not see at any time. 
> Thanks, for the link I'll see what I can tweak.
> 
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> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alexandre Kouznetsov
> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 1:35 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Xen kernel booting to black screen.
> 
> Hello.
> 
> El 14/06/13 12:19, Joshua Tuttle escribiÃ:
>> Here is my grub.cfg
> Looks fine to me.
> 
> Additionally to using "vga=normal", consider removing the parameter "quiet" 
> from kernel boot line for debugging.
> 
> It has been a while since I have not seen a screen of a machine with Xen 
> while booting, so I don't remember if Grub's messages 'Loading initial 
> ramdisk ...' goes before or after Xen's dmesg output. Probably before.
> Please confirm if Xen's dmesg output is visible or not.
> 
> In case it's not, you may try to play with Xen's boot parameters. A quick 
> search thrown this reference:
> http://xenbits.xen.org/docs/unstable/misc/xen-command-line.html
> 
> Greetings.
> 
> --
> Alexandre Kouznetsov
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