Bug 199255

Summary: xen0 boots to unuseable console on a VIA EPIA PD10000
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: J. David Rye <d.rye>
Component: xenAssignee: Xen Maintainance List <xen-maint>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Martin Jenner <mjenner>
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Version: 5CC: bstein, katzj, mstadtle
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Description J. David Rye 2006-07-18 13:37:42 UTC 
Description of problem:
Tried adding xen to a working and updated FC5 system, running on a VIA
EPIA PD10000 motherboard with 1GB of RAM.

Boot looked normal up to the point where it should switch to a graphical login
screen at which point monitor powered off.... Keyboard Capslock/Numlock still
worked.

Followed notes to boot to runlevel 3, diferent symptoms console goes black
with a row of white blocks at the top of the screen. Tapping keyboard yeals
additional block at the bottom of the screen, some white some coloured.

Tried a wipe and reinstall using the notes in the FC5 wiki and an FC5 DVD
cut from the ISO on the website.

Same result.
   

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How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot from DVD
2. select linux xen0
3.
  
Actual results:
A non usable system :-(

Expected results:
A usable system :-)

Additional info:
The wiki gave instruction on how to capture console messages via serial cable
As printed this only got the xen start messages, retrying for a nongraphical
runlevel 3 boot also loged the xen0 kernel start messages see attachment
Comment 1 J. David Rye 2006-07-18 13:37:42 UTC 
Created attachment 132602 [details]
data to ttyS0 captured with ttywatch
Comment 2 Stephen Tweedie 2007-03-16 15:07:45 UTC 
Is this still reproducible on the latest stable release+updates?  Thanks.
Comment 3 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-07-24 23:56:14 UTC 
change QA contact
Comment 4 Chris Lalancette 2008-02-26 23:13:10 UTC 
This report targets FC5, which is now end-of-life.

Please re-test against Fedora 7 or later, and if the issue persists, open a new bug.

Thanks