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[Xen-users] can't get past grub

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Subject: [Xen-users] can't get past grub
From: Michael Hrivnak <mjhns@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 16:23:18 -0500
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The problem: when grub attempts to boot xen, it hangs on a screen that looks like this:

/*-------
Booting command list

kernel (hd0,0)/xen-3.0.gz dom0_mem=64000
(Multiboot-elf, <0xsomeaddress:another:another>, shtab=0xsomeaddress, entry=0x100000)
module (hd0,0)/vmlinuz-2.6.12-xen0 root=/dev/hda5 ro console=tty0
  (Multiboot-module @ 0x194000, 0x4aea08 bytes)
------- */

Background:

This is a fresh Mandriva 2006 install that works with grub but not xen. I tried the Mandriva xen packages, got the above result, removed them, installed the latest binaries, and still get the same result.

The system uses a /boot partition out of necessity. It's grub config is included below. It uses an AMD K6-2 450mhz processor with 128M ram, recently tested with memtest86. I also included the fstab below.

Can you help me figure out what's going wrong? It seems that the xen kernel isn't getting even an inch off the ground.

Thanks,
Michael

/*-----/boot/grub/menu.lst--------------
timeout 6
color 2
splashimage (hd0,0)/grub/mdv-grub_splash.xpm.gz
default 0
viewport 3 2 77 22
shade 1

title 2611-8
kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 resume=/dev/hda1
initrd (hd0,0)/initrd.img

title Xen 3.0
kernel (hd0,0)/xen-3.0.gz dom0_mem=64000
module (hd0,0)/vmlinuz-2.6.12-xen0 root=/dev/hda5 ro console=tty0
------------------------*/

/*----------/etc/fstab-------
/dev/hda5 / reiserfs notail 1 1
/dev/hda1 /boot reiserfs notail 1 2
/dev/md0 /home reiserfs notail 1 2
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0022,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0022,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/md1 swap swap defaults 0 0
-------------------*/

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