[Fedora-xen] Re: [fedora-virt] bzImage dom0 kernel support in latest rawhide Xen packages
Pasi Kärkkäinen
pasik at iki.fi
Fri Feb 6 11:42:38 UTC 2009
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 12:37:42AM +0000, M A Young wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>
> >On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 01:37:06PM +0100, Jan ONDREJ (SAL) wrote:
> >>When trying to compile 2.6.29-rc3+xen, I need to turn off xen*frontentds
> >>and xen*backend drivers have to be compiled into kernel, not as modules.
> >>After this I have a functional kernel, but after booting with xen-3.3.gz,
> >>my
> >>screen is blank.
> >>
> >
> >I haven't gotten the pv_ops dom0 kernel VGA text console to work at all
> >yet..
> >
> >I've been using serial console.
>
> I have the VGA console printing boot messages from the kernel with the
> configuration
>
> title xen test
> root (hd0,5)
> kernel /xen-3.3.gz
> module /vmlinuz-2.6.29-rc3-tip ro
> root=UUID=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 single pci=nomsi
> maxcpus=1
> module /initrd-2.6.29-rc3-tip.img
>
> though it crashes before it gets as far as a prompt. This is x86_64.
> However I have another machine that goes blank after the XEN output
> (though I am not sure I have tried it with precisely the same options)
> which is an i686. The difference might be nothing to do with the boot
> options though, and could relate to graphics cards or precisely how
> plymouth is set up.
>
Yeah, that's my problem too.. VGA text console goes blank when dom0 kernel is
booted.. Xen hypervisor messages are displayed OK (before the dom0 kernel).
I'm running also 32bit Xen and dom0.
-- Pasi
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