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RE: [Xen-users] AMD-64 install hangs on kernel load

To: "Paul Archer" <parcher@xxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] AMD-64 install hangs on kernel load
From: "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:18:46 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Paul Archer
> Sent: 27 February 2007 17:10
> To: Petersson, Mats
> Cc: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [Xen-users] AMD-64 install hangs on kernel load
> 
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Petersson, Mats wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >>
> >> When I try to boot, though, I get as far as the xen kernel
> >> trying to load,
> >> and then grub spits this out, and the machine reboots:
> >>
> >> root  (hd0,0)
> >>   Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> >> kernel  /xen-3.0.4-1.gz
> >>     [Multiboot-elf, <0x100000:0x9a878:0x5a788>, shtab=0x1f5078,
> >> entry=0x100000]
> >> module  /vmlinuz-2.6.16.33-xen root=/dev/sda2 ro 
> console=ttyS1,115200
> >> noreboot
> >> sync_console
> >>     [Multiboot-module @ 0x1f6000, 0x52afa0 bytes]
> >> module  /initrd.img-2.6.16.33-xen
> >>     [Multiboot-module @ 0x721000, 0x4b6000 bytes]
> >>
> >>
> >> Is there anything I'm missing? Anything I can do to help debug the
> >> problem?
> >
> > And nothing else appears on the console (serial port)?
> >
> Nope. The next line afer what's shown above is after the 
> machine resets. 
> This is a server, so I get full BIOS redirection. I know I'm 
> not missing 
> anything there.
> 
> > I don't see anything directly wrong, but it's obviously "not as it
> > should be".
> >
> > What version of gcc are you using - if you have a bleeding edge
> > compiler, maybe it clobbered the binaries in some way (we've seen
> > problems where new compilers optimization features causes Xen to "go
> > wrong" because the compiler makes assumptions about things 
> that aren't
> > matching reality). Gcc 4.0 or older should be fine tho'.
> >
> ned75:~# gcc -v
> Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/x86_64-linux/3.3.5/specs
> Configured with: ../src/configure -v 
> --enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,pascal,objc,ada,treelang 
> --prefix=/usr 
> --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/x
> Thread model: posix
> gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)

I use gcc 3.3.3 at the moment, and I think 3.3.5 is the version that
comes with the SuSE version that my collegues in Austin tends to use
(9.x I think), so I would say that's fine - unless of course that
particular version of debian build is broken... 

Can you do objdump -d on your xen-syms (in ...<xen-source>/xen) - just
the first 15-20 lines should be enough to see that it's looking about
right - just mail it to me, not the list, as I don't think most of the
list will appreciate assmebly dumps ;-)

--
Mats
> 
> 
> This is a fresh debian install, no addons or changes at all.
> 
> Paul
> 
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