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RE: [Xen-devel] xen3 not booting on hp/compaq proliant

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Adam Heath wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Ian Pratt wrote:
>
> > > So, I'm stilling having problems with this hardware; however,
> > > now it's with xen 2.0.6, and 2.6.11.9.
> > >
> > > The symptoms are like memory corruption; bzip2 reported
> > > inconsisent checksums; /var/lib/dpkg/diversions was all
> > > nulls.  Successive logins returned varying syntax errors in
> > > /etc/bash_completion, with the last login having no errors.
> >
> > Try booting the xen3 demo CD and see if that runs stably. If so, try
> > mounting your disks and see if you can md5sum large files reliably.
>
> Ok, there are some very bad problems going on with smp on 2.0.6.
>
> I boot xen 2.0.6, linux 2.6.11.9, with nosmp and noht on the xen line.  I can
> run a gunzip | bzip2 -9, on a 5g file, no problems.
>
> I reboot with smp(2 real cpus, 4 virtual).  I get an error as *soon* as I log
> in, like this:

Hmm.  This now looks like it has nothing to do with xen.

I booted normal 2.6.12.6, and started to compile a 2.6.14 kernel, with PAE
enabled.  I've gotten 3 random compiler segfaults.

So, it most definately looks like flakey hardware.

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