WARNING - OLD ARCHIVES

This is an archived copy of the Xen.org mailing list, which we have preserved to ensure that existing links to archives are not broken. The live archive, which contains the latest emails, can be found at http://lists.xen.org/
   
 
 
Xen 
 
Home Products Support Community News
 
   
 

xen-devel

Re: [Xen-devel] PV Grub Questions

To: "Samuel Thibault" <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel mailing list" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] PV Grub Questions
From: "Todd Deshane" <deshantm@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:48:13 -0400
Cc:
Delivery-date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:48:36 -0700
Dkim-signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:reply-to :to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=ywkf5Y8UVMgrS2t8qP0wkUKkh1GkJqX58ul6hDWXBV0=; b=Ib+d2fu+Typxp4nNMISVhyoslWLDdKsgp3ZxNprTXvSYIGTD4UDElSza17KzSJbKXW /v7t041Evif4FAPEveZszqQRHqEs4pHeeOcfiFLHcg3t90/cfJHrXwWHuN6Zj4Jhe6oN fEmtM1SapoEHhXQe5Zpi/TzbA0fLfUkIiXnEY=
Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=RjkMp5B326JJ1rqufK8PFylEzJOitJAhm4TWzWxP8mtKgtfXGRD3xv5SAd2ShLABMz HJSMZXJHw8GpnmXpNpthj0nzJ7Wj0Zxuy4bRvtVXNRMfdZj+COH0V7JGi+FNYvAd22Jg R/keLEyydRRRR5uAJ7L2H3FOLIsW6cKFSHMcY=
Envelope-to: www-data@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20080827230502.GB4516@implementation>
List-help: <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=help>
List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>
List-post: <mailto:xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
List-subscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>, <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=subscribe>
List-unsubscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>, <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=unsubscribe>
References: <1e16a9ed0808261257p763cb14uc6a3b28513cf94d2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <20080827153342.GX4535@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <1e16a9ed0808271233v2b013245rabf93cee230e0d0e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <20080827230502.GB4516@implementation>
Reply-to: deshantm@xxxxxxxxx
Sender: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Samuel Thibault
<samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Todd Deshane, le Wed 27 Aug 2008 15:33:40 -0400, a écrit :
>> grubdom> boot
>> Cannot handle page request order 0!
>
> The message could be less verbose, but that should be it: IIRC you have
> only 64MB in your domain, that's actually not so much for building a PV
> domain.
>

I gave it a bunch more memory and now it hangs try to boot at the same
point as before...

<Boot Process>
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Xen virtual console successfully installed as xvc0
Event-channel device installed.
netfront: Initialising virtual ethernet driver.
xen-vbd: registered block device major 3
 hda:
<HANG>

Something in the way PV GRUB is doing things, since booting manually
with kernel and ramdisk still works.

It may be some option to the kernel command line, i tried adding:

things like the following to kernel grubdom line, with no luck, still hangs.
xencons=tty root=/dev/hda2
console=tty1 root=/dev/hda2
console=xvc0 root=/dev/hda2

The bigger problem though is the PV GRUB isn't actually working like I
might expect it to.

Do I need to pass the menu.lst file in the ramdisk option to see a grub
menu? Or should it detect the menu.lst within the guest disk image file?

Is there a simple example that I could download and work with to get
a sense of a working PV GRUB example?

Cheers,
Todd

_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel