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Re: [Xen-devel] Support for AGP aperture as IOMMU in AMD64 mode [2/2]

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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Support for AGP aperture as IOMMU in AMD64 mode [2/2]
From: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:46:55 +0000
Cc: "Langsdorf, Mark" <mark.langsdorf@xxxxxxx>
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You still have to build Xen itself from the xen-unstable source tree, as 
usual.  Use that, with the kernel you just built, and it should work fine.

Cheers,
Mark

On Monday 23 January 2006 15:44, Langsdorf, Mark wrote:
> > > The AMD64 tree isn't building a bzImage in
> >
> > arch/x86_64/boot/ , and the
> >
> > > top level vmlinuz doesn't seem to work with GRUB (or I'm
> >
> > passing the
> >
> > > wrong arguments, I'm not sure).
> > >
> > > Here's my grub boot line:
> > >   kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz-2.6.15-xen-dom0 root=/dev/hda5
> > >   initrd (hd0,0)/initrd-2.6.15-xen-dom0
> > >
> > > I get a GRUB error "Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable
> > > format" when I try to boot, though.
> >
> > kernel line should reference the Xen image, then a module line to
> > reference the dom0 kernel image, then a second module line
> > (not initrd line) to reference the initrd image.
> >
> > Your current grub boot lines are trying to load a xenlinux image
> > directly as if it were a native linux boot image.
>
> Which Xen image?  arch/i386 has a boot-xen directory, but
> arch/x86_64 does not, and I don't see anything that looks like
> a xen build image in the directory structure.
>
> -Mark Langsdorf
> AMD, Inc.
>
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