[TriLUG] Xen and FC5

[Jason Tower]

ditch the .20 kernel and use an earlier one:

http://www.trilug.org/~jason/fc5_kernels/

J.C. Jones wrote:
> Jason,
> 
> kernel /xen.gz-2.6.20-1.2312.fc5
> module /vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2312.fc5xen0.....
> 
> by the way,  it is "making device-mapper control node" instead of "mode" 
> as I wrote earlier.
> 
> where can I get earlier versions?\
> 
> jcj
> 
> Jason Tower wrote:
> 
>> what kernel are you booting?  i've heard the latest ones have lots of 
>> problems, eariler kernels work much better.
>>
>> J.C. Jones wrote:
>>
>>> All,
>>>
>>> The actual hang line is " making device-mapper control mode "
>>>
>>> More details.
>>> Initially, I was getting a kernel panic message, I added in a line at 
>>> boot
>>> swiotlb=force
>>> With this in the grub, it would get to "making device-mapper control 
>>> mode", pause for short period then show call trace lines and some of 
>>> data. It would then lockup.
>>>
>>> Now I have added
>>> iommu=force
>>> prior to the swiotlb line in grub
>>>
>>> No progress past "making device - mapper control mode" line, no extra 
>>> call trace lines, etc -- just a blinking cursor.
>>> repeating the boot after doing crtl-alt-del gives me the same thing, 
>>> but with call trace lines, etc
>>>
>>> After a couple more boots, process goes to same point, waits about 30 
>>> seconds, then reboots??
>>>
>>> jcj
>>>
>>> J.C. Jones wrote:
>>>
>>>> All,
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions for installing xen to FC5 and getting it to work? I 
>>>> followed the FC5 quickstart for Xen, but when I reboot using xen0 
>>>> kernel, it gets to something called control mapper, pauses a long 
>>>> time, then a list of call trace lines appear, after which it appears 
>>>> to lock up.
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> jcj
>>>>
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