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Re: [Xen-devel] Unable to open initial console on dom0

To: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, anil prasad <anil411@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Unable to open initial console on dom0
From: "Mark A. Williamson" <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:29:05 +0000
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Can you try using the RHEL initrd?  Add another "module" line to grub.conf 
(NOT an "initrd" line) specifying the same arguments as your standard RHEL 
initrd line.

Cheers,
Mark

On Wednesday 23 February 2005 12:40, anil prasad wrote:
> Hi,
> I am new to Xen. I tried to use it with RHEL4 alongwith 2.6.10 fresh
> linux kernel.
>
> Dom0 kernel gets loaded but it gets struck after printing "Unable to
> open initial console"
>
> Here is my /etc/grub.conf configuration:
> ---------------------------------------------------Begin-------------------
>---------------------------- title Xen 2.0 / XenLinux 2.6.10
>         kernel /xen.gz dom0_mem=131072 root=/dev/sda5 com1=9600,8n1
>         module /vmlinuz-2.6.10-xen0 root=/dev/sda5 ro "console=ttyS0"
> ----------------------------------------------------End--------------------
>------------------------------
>
> Somewhere on the web, I read that Xen causes trouble if devfs is being
> used for /dev entries but RHEL 4 doesn't use devfs. I checked up
> CONFIG_VT and other related configuration options in dom0 kernel which
> are ok.
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Anil.
>
>
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