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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] pv-grub: fix boot crash when no fb is availa

To: "David P. Quigley" <dpquigl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] pv-grub: fix boot crash when no fb is available
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:12:45 +0100
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On 13/04/2010 15:55, "David P. Quigley" <dpquigl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I just returned from vacation and am working on this again and have run
> into a new stumbling block. I managed to solve the booting to the grub
> prompt issue (apparently pvgrub can't handle symlinks). The issue now
> though is that my image that works fine as an HVM seems to hang. I've
> pasted the output below. In there you can see that there is a call trace
> for something xen related early on in the kernel boot process. I'm
> unsure if this is related to some of the other pvgrub problems I've been
> seeing on the list as of late.

Can you boot this kernel *without* using pvgrub or pygrub? The kernel's PV
support may well simply be buggy.

 -- Keir



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