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Re: [Xen-devel] can't boot into dom0 - followup

To: Mike Wright <mike.wright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] can't boot into dom0 - followup
From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 09:15:02 -0400
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On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 01:00:22PM -0700, Mike Wright wrote:
> On 06/17/2011 02:13 PM, Mike Wright wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >New to this list.
> >
> >I built xen-4.1.1 successfully and can see that it boots from grub with
> >the kernel /xen.gz line.
> >
> >I'm using the following kernel (3.0.0-rc2):
> >
> >http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git and its default
> >.config file,

You might want to refresh it (this is #master tree and #next-3.0).
> >
> >which also builds successfully and boots standalone.
> >
> >When I try to boot it as a dom0 I get a segfault.

what was the segfault?
> 
> I added vga=ask,keep to the kernel /xen.gz line and chose 363 for
> the mode, and *it boots*.
> 
> When using runlevel 3 it seems to perform as if it were bare metal;
> however, runlevel 5 runs extremely slow, desktop fonts don't render
> but application fonts do.

Hm, what is the graphic adapter you have?
> 
> It took about 5 minutes to load Thunderbird so I could send this email.

Yikes!
> 
> So it does seem to be vga related.

Were there zillions of WARN in your serial console/ /var/log/messages
when Xorg was starting?
> 
> Thanks, all,
> Mike Wright
> 
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