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RE: [Xen-devel] xen-unstable + pvops-kernel doesn't boot on my machine,

To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>, Min Lee <min.lee@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] xen-unstable + pvops-kernel doesn't boot on my machine, ibm x3550M2
From: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 12:27:52 -0700 (PDT)
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> > I'm attaching full boot log for both working/non-working case.
> > The working case is xen-unstable+linux2.6.18.8 and it boots up, at
> least.
> > Nonworking case is pvops kernel native.
> 
> That just looks like your initrd isn't set up properly.  How did you
> generate it?  Do you have all the right dm config options to make lvm
> work?

Centos5 may be the important clue.  I've found that
to build and boot an upstream kernel on RHEL5, it
is necessary to specify:

CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2=y

Without these, I was seeing a highly similar result
booting a 2.6.34 kernel on a RHEL5 guest.  Apparently,
something in nash or something that nash uses doesn't
work without some deprecated symlinks in sysfs and
the resulting error looks like a bad initrd.
http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/SYSFS_DEPRECATED.html 

Anecdotally, I've also found that using make -j4 doesn't
always seem to work, so I always leave off the -j4 (possibly
especially in "make -j4 modules modules_install").

Perhaps one of those will help?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge [mailto:jeremy@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 11:31 AM
> To: Min Lee
> Cc: Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] xen-unstable + pvops-kernel doesn't boot on my
> machine, ibm x3550M2
> 
> On 05/27/2010 09:10 AM, Min Lee wrote:
> > Hi, Jeremy.
> > I'm attaching full boot log for both working/non-working case.
> > The working case is xen-unstable+linux2.6.18.8 and it boots up, at
> least.
> > Nonworking case is pvops kernel native.
> 
> That just looks like your initrd isn't set up properly.  How did you
> generate it?  Do you have all the right dm config options to make lvm
> work?
> 
>     J
> 
> > it might be some stupid mistake, but I've tried many configurations,
> > but still it doesn't boot..so I hope I can hear from you.
> > Thanks!
> > Min
> >
> > On 5/26/2010 5:09 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> >> On 05/26/2010 10:20 AM, Min Lee wrote:
> >>> Hello.
> >>> I've tried Xen-unstable + Jeremy's pvops kernel on ibm x3550M2
> server
> >>> machine, but it fails to mount root fs.
> >>> I'm using ibm x3550M2 server with broadcom NetXtreme II network
> card,
> >>> and ibm RAID. (64bit)
> >>> Even running pvops-kernel without xen fails, too, and I could see
> this
> >>> booting message.
> >>>
> >>> pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 6: no parent found for of device
> >>> [0xffff0000-ffffffff]
> >>
> >> Can you post the full boot log?  And the boot log of a kernel which
> does
> >> succeed?  If the kernel doesn't boot native you need to sort that
> out
> >> before trying to debug the Xen case.
> >>
> >>      J
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Module for the raid (megaraid_sas.ko) is in initrd file.
> >>> I've also tried xen-unstable + 2.6.18-xen and it boots, but it
> doesn't
> >>> detect my network card.
> >>> it seems like it fails to allocate apic I/O resources.
> >>> Anybody who's running xen-unstable on similar configuration ??
> >>> Thank you for any comments or help.
> >>> Min
> >>>
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> >>
> >>
> 
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