On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 06:07:44PM -0700, Ritu kaur wrote:
> Just to add, I have tried both com1 and com2 from baud rate 38400 to
> 115200 no luck. Inputs much appreciated.
>
Do you have an onboard serial port, or is at some kind of SOL?
-- Pasi
> Thanks
>
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Ritu kaur <[1]
ritu.kaur.us@[2]
gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Pasi,
>
> Serial console just doesn't seem to work. In extlinux.conf file I have
>
> # location mbr
> serial 0 115200
> default xe-serial
> prompt 1
> timeout 50
> ...
>
> label xe-serial
> # XenCloudPlatform (Serial)
> kernel mboot.c32
> append /boot/xen.3.4.3.gz com1=115200,8n1 console=com1,vga
> dom0_mem=752M lowmem_emergency_pool=1M crashkernel=64M@32M ---
> /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32 root=LABEL=root-mhycetek ro console=tty0
> earlyprintk=xen nomodeset xencons=hvc console=hvc0 ---
> /boot/initrd-2.6.32.img
>
> From another linux m/c, I run minicom -s /dev/ttyS0, configure serial
> port to match above config. minicom always reports serial port as
> offline. Googled and tried another option "minicom -c on /dev/ttyS0"
> still no luck. I have made sure from BIOS on both m/c's serial com ports
> are enabled. Not quite sure what is wrong here. Does extlinux.conf entry
> looks fine?
>
> Thanks
>
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <[3]
pasik@xxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 02:34:39PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 08:21:49PM -0700, Ritu kaur wrote:
> > > I tried another thing. After compilation, I did "make
> modules_install" in
> > > xcp ddk in order to use following command
> > >
> > > mkinitrd -f ./initrd-2.6.32.img 2.6.32
> > >
> > > I get following errors...
> > >
> > > modinfo: could not find module ide-disk
> > > No module ide-disk found for kernel 2.6.32, aborting
> > >
> >
> > mkinitrd reads /etc/modprobe.conf to figure out what modules should
> be included into the initrd image.
> >
>
> also I'm not sure if ide-disk is a required module for 2.6.32?
>
> -- Pasi
> > > My boot disk is ide and looking into .config didn't give me any
> ideas as
> > > to what has to be enabled.
> > >
> >
> > If you need some other module then fix it in /etc/modprobe.conf
> > You need to figure out what's the correct driver for your root/boot
> disk.
> >
> > -- Pasi
> >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Ritu kaur
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > Thanks Pasi. I had used following command to regenerate
> initrd image in
> > > xcp ddk
> > >
> > > mkinitrd -f ./initrd-2.6.32.img
> 2.6.27.42-0.1.1.xs0.1.1.737.1065xen
> > >
> > > it doesn't work either. While booting screen goes blank
> immediately
> > > after I see
> > > ...
> > > Booting:MBI=0x00010120, entry=0x00100000
> > >
> > > and next thing I see is BIOS setup, so not sure connecting
> serial cable
> > > will reveal anything more. Inputs appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen
> <[3][6]pasik@xxxxxx>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 11:28:12AM -0700, Ritu kaur wrote:
> > > > Any inputs on this? I compiled xen/next kernel in
> Debian Lenny
> > > and booted
> > > > successfully as a domU(I am using same .config file
> which I used
> > > to build
> > > > under xcp-ddk). Looks to me xen/next doesn't work with
> xcp0.1.1.
> > > >
> > >
> > > You need to re-generate the dom0 kernel initrd to match
> your kernel.
> > > You cannot use the default xcp initrd image.
> > >
> > > Please provide the full serial console boot log so we can
> troubleshoot
> > > it:
> > > [4][7]http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenSerialConsole
> > >
> > > -- Pasi
> > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Ritu kaur
> > > <[1][5][8]ritu.kaur.us@[2][6][9]gmail.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi Pasi,
> > > >
> > > > Messages seen with not-working case
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> /***********************************************************************************
> > > > kernel:/boot/xen.3.4.3.gz dom0-mem=752M
> > > lowmem-emergency-pool=1M
> > > > crashkernel=64M@32M console=comX vga=mode-0x0311
> > > > loading /boot/xen.3.4.3.gz..........
> > > > Module:/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32 root=LABEL=root-mhycetek
> ro
> > > Xencons=hvc
> > > > console=hvc0 console=tty0 quiet vga=785 splash
> > > > Loading /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32.........
> > > > Module:/boot/initrd-2.6-xen.img
> > > > Loading
> > > >
> > >
> /boot/initrd-2.6-xen.img...............................................................................................
> > > > Booting:MBI=0x00010120, entry=0x00100000
> > > >
> > >
> ***************************************************************************************/
> > > >
> > > > Screen is blank after these messages and system
> returns to BIOS
> > > setup.
> > > >
> > > > Messages seen with working case
> > > >
> > >
> /***********************************************************************************
> > > > kernel:/boot/xen.gz dom0-mem=752M
> lowmem-emergency-pool=1M
> > > > crashkernel=64M@32M comsole=comX vga=mode-0x0311
> > > > loading /boot/xen.gz..........
> > > > Module:/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.xen
> root=LABEL=root-mhycetek ro
> > > Xencons=hvc
> > > > console=hvc0 console=tty0 quiet vga=785 splash
> > > > Loading /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.xen.........
> > > > Module:/boot/initrd-2.6-xen.img
> > > > Loading
> > > >
> > >
> /boot/initrd-2.6-xen.img...............................................................................................
> > > > Booting:MBI=0x00010120, entry=0x00100000
> > > >
> > >
> ***************************************************************************************/
> > > >
> > > > Versions used in Non-working case
> > > >
> > > > xen - 3.4.3/4.0.0
> > > > kernel - xen/next
> > > > initrd - default one which came with xcp0.1.1
> download.(Ps
> > > note, in xcp
> > > > ddk cannot build initrd image)
> > > >
> > > > in Working case
> > > >
> > > > xen - 3.4.2
> > > > kernel - xcp 0.1.1
> > > > initrd - one that came with xcp 0.1.1
> > > >
> > > > Checked in my .config and changed
> CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START to
> > > 0x00100000
> > > > and CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN=0x100000, didn't help.
> > > >
> > > > Inputs appreciated.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > > > References
> > > >
> > > > Visible links
> > > > 2. [8][11]http://gmail.com/
> > >
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> > >
> > > References
> > >
> > > Visible links
> > > 7. [20]http://ritu.kaur.us/
> > > 8. [21]http://gmail.com/
> > > 9. mailto:[22]Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > 10. [23]http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
> >
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