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Re: [Xen-users] xen hg tree from yesterday hangs, when kernel console is

To: Hans-Christian Armingeon <johnny@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] xen hg tree from yesterday hangs, when kernel console is directed to ttyS0
From: Jussi Hamalainen <Jussi.Hamalainen@xxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 17:10:00 +0200 (EET)
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On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Hans-Christian Armingeon wrote:

> When I reboot my system with xen with the following options to xen
> and vmlinuz,
>
> xen.gz com1=115200,8n1 console=com1,vga
> vmlinuz console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0
>
> the system hangs up while booting the dom0 kernel.

I think Xen has a major buffering/blocking IO issue with serial
console. It works for a while but when loads of lines get
flooded onto the console, the system freezes up. Adding a
"sync_console" to your Xen parameters might solve the problem, or at
least it worked for me.

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