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Re: [Xen-devel] xen-unstable HV fails to boot on AMD quad core

To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] xen-unstable HV fails to boot on AMD quad core
From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:51:06 +0100
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On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 04:40:14PM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
> Are you using the new SVGA text console support? That would explain a few
> seconds delay to seeing any output on 16000, although 10s is longer than I'd
> expect. Also the late initialisation of SVGA text console means there's
> quite a bit of scope for things to go wrong during bootup before you have a
> chance of seeing anything on screen. Can you connect a serial line?

I don't know if I'm using SVGA console support. This is basically a 100%
clean checkout of xen-unstable.hg and I just did 'make' in the 'xen'
directory without changing any build config options, and I've not given any
special boot parameters to the HV. So if SVGA stuff is enabled by default, 
then I'm using it....   Is there a grub boot option I can use to disable
it ?

Unfortunately this box is one of the 'nice' new legacy free machines
and thus no serial :-(

> As for possible changesets, plenty of exciting stuff has been going in over
> the last few days. Particularly relevant might be changesets 16093 and 16094
> which are specifically regarding support for the new quad cores.

Thanks, I'll try some builds before & after these

Regards,
Dan.
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