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Re: [Xen-devel] Newer Changesets broke Dom0 boot with 2.6.7

To: sven.kretzschmar@xxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Newer Changesets broke Dom0 boot with 2.6.7
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 18:56:55 +0100
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I am unable to reproduce any of these problems booting vanilla RedHat
9 as DOM0. This is odd as I might expect to at least see the
hwclock/kudzu problem...

I'll install vanilla FC2 tomorrow and see what happens.

 -- Keir

> 
> I tried your proposals, but it helped only to solve a
> part of the problems:
> 
> By either adding "nosegfixup" to the kernel command line
> and/or renaming /lib/tls, I could get rid of the segfaults which
> totally prevented the 2.6.7 kernel from booting in Dom0 (Csets 1.1158+).
> So, in this case, it helped a lot ;-)
> 
> However, it did not remove the segfaults generated by
> kudzu and hwclock, which were introduced around
> CSet 1.1154.
> It seems that something was changed concerning how
> you directly access hardware in xen(-linux) starting
> around CSet 1.1154, because both kudzu and hwclock
> directly address hardware (..?).
> 
> If you need any further debugging for both issues (I assume
> "nosegfixup" is only a workaround and not a real bugfix) 
> from me, just drop me an email and tell me what debug
> options I have to activate ;-)
> 
> Thx + have a nice weekend to all,
>   Sven...switching over from computer live to real live....
> 
> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
> 
> On 07.08.2004 at 00:22 Ian Pratt wrote:
> 
> >> 
> >> It seems that newer changesets broke booting a Dom0 with kernel 2.6.7.
> >> At least with Fedora Core 2, which I am using.
> >> CSet 1.1153 was the last one working correctly for me.
> >> CSet 1.1154 introduced segfaults during bootprocess with kudzu and
> >hwclock,
> >> but the kernel was still able to finish the bootprocess.
> >> (I did not test any CSets between 1.1153 and 1.1154).
> >> Cset 1.1156: Like 1.1154
> >> CSet 1.1158 Additonal segfaults during Dom0 boot with
> >> /sbin/devlabel, initlog and mounting file systems.
> >> The kernel is no longer able to boot Dom0; the boot process
> >> freezes.
> >
> >Thanks for the report.
> >
> >Please can you try 'mv /lib/tls /lib/tlsXXX'.  If that helps,
> >please can you put it back and try adding 'nosegfixup' on the
> >kernel command line.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Ian
> 
> 
> 
> 
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