Bug 240221

Summary:

kernel-xen does not boot (Kai's new i386 box)

Product:

[Fedora] Fedora

Reporter:

Kai Engert (:kaie) (inactive account) <kengert>

Component:

kernel-xen

Assignee:

Xen Maintainance List <xen-maint>

Status:

CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

QA Contact:

Brian Brock <bbrock>

Severity:

medium

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Priority:

medium

Version:

rawhide

CC:

xen-maint

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Hardware:

i686

OS:

Linux

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Fixed In Version:

kernel-xen-2.6.20-2925.8.fc7

Doc Type:

Bug Fix

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Last Closed:

2007-05-16 16:53:59 UTC

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RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:

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Description	Flags
cat /proc/cpuinfo	none
lspci -n and lspci	none
plain kernel, not irqpoll, broken	none
plain kernel, boots up ok with irqpoll	none
xen kernel, not irqpoll, broken	none
xen kernel, using irqpoll, but still fails	none

Description Kai Engert (:kaie) (inactive account) 2007-05-15 19:50:22 UTC

Please note, to avoid confusion.
I have two i386 boxes that I try to run xen on.
An old box which doesn't work, see bug 239512.
In the hope to get a working environment I today bought a shiny new box, but on
this machine I fail much earlier.

This bug is about my new box, which has a mainboard with Intel P965 chipset and
and a Core 2 Duo processor.


Description of problem:
kernel-xen does not boot up. I get failures and timeouts around sata.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-xen-2.6.20-2925.5.fc7
(kernel-2.6.20-1.3104.fc7)

  
Actual results:
does not boot, error messages, eventually panics


Additional info:
I will attach logfiles from the serial console

Comment 1 Kai Engert (:kaie) (inactive account) 2007-05-15 19:52:26 UTC

Created attachment 154769 [details]
cat /proc/cpuinfo

Comment 2 Kai Engert (:kaie) (inactive account) 2007-05-15 19:53:18 UTC

Created attachment 154770 [details]
lspci -n  and  lspci

Comment 3 Kai Engert (:kaie) (inactive account) 2007-05-15 19:55:17 UTC

Created attachment 154771 [details]
plain kernel, not irqpoll, broken

This is an attempt to boot the standard kernel (not xen).
It fails to boot up.

Comment 4 Kai Engert (:kaie) (inactive account) 2007-05-15 19:56:29 UTC

Created attachment 154772 [details]
plain kernel, boots up ok with irqpoll

Using irqpoll kernel boot option I was able to boot up the plain kernel
successfully.
However, I really want to use xen on this machine, see next attachments.

Comment 5 Kai Engert (:kaie) (inactive account) 2007-05-15 19:57:31 UTC

Created attachment 154773 [details]
xen kernel, not irqpoll, broken

This is an attempt to boot up the xen kernel with default boot options.
Not using irqpoll.
Fails to boot.

Comment 6 Kai Engert (:kaie) (inactive account) 2007-05-15 19:58:45 UTC

Created attachment 154774 [details]
xen kernel, using irqpoll, but still fails

This is an attempt to boot up the xen kernel.
In grub, I added the irqpoll option to both the "kernel" line and the "vmlinuz"
line.
Fails to boot.

Comment 7 Kai Engert (:kaie) (inactive account) 2007-05-15 20:59:44 UTC

Wow.

kernel-xen-2.6.20-2925.8.fc7

using option "irqpoll" on both kernel and vmlinuz line.

Boots up!!!

Comment 8 Richard W.M. Jones 2007-05-15 21:08:05 UTC

I notice that the kernel & HV you are using are a little old.

Did you try the up2date kernel (should be kernel-xen-2.6.20-2925.8.fc7 and
xen-3.1.0-0.rc7.1.fc7)?  This is based on Xen 3.1.0 whereas you are using the
previous release of Xen (3.0.4).

Comment 9 Kai Engert (:kaie) (inactive account) 2007-05-16 16:53:59 UTC

I think I should close this bug as WORKSFORME.

Richard, 10 minutes before your comment I reported that it's working.

So only the very latest bleeding edge kernel-xen works on my box, but hey, it works.

I was able to install both para and fully virt clients, FC4 and RHEL 3.

Good work.