[TriLUG] Xen and FC5

[J.C. Jones]

Will give it a shot!

jcj

Jason Tower wrote:

> 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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