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On Fri June 3 2016, 09:39:54 PM, jim burns wrote:
> Pls cc: me in any replies.
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> On Sat May 21 2016, 11:41:27 PM, jim burns wrote:
> > For kernels 3.19 - 4.2, the system won't boot into xen at all. In all
> > cases,bare metal boots work fine.
> >
> > For kernels 4.3 - 4.6, and 4.7-rc, it gets more interesting, and I am able
> > to provide a log (for 4.6). The system refuses to initialize my hard
> > disk,
> > and I am dumped into a rescue shell. I was able to initialze the network,
> > and mount my Windows machine over cifs, so I could xfer the logs.
> >
> > I've played quite a bit with dracut's {add,force}_drivers+= parms, and the
> > files in /usr/lib/modules-load.d, and currently load the following kernel
> > modules, in the following order, to no effect. (I also don't remember the
> > xen version for the last 4 years changing any of my results - 4.2 - 4.6.)
>
> Huh! I just installed kernel 4.5.6 today, and for the first time since 3.18,
> I can boot into xen! Still can't boot into 4.5.5, or 4.6.0, and the config
> files for 4.5.5 & 4.5.6 are identical, so I don't know what's changed. I
> won't be losing the 4.5.6 rpms any time soon!
Just installed 4.7rc1 today, and it boots into xen also (on my old machine). Haven't seen a version of 4.6 that will yet. I would love to know what changed in 4.7 (and possibly later 4.6 development) that probably was back ported between 4.5.5 and 4.5.6 that lets the latter boot into xen also. | 
